how to clean a dvd burner laser

[chris.redfield]

Hey everyone,
I am at a cross roads here with 3 coasters and imgburn giving me errors :

i/o error imgburn
imgburn Reason: Logical Unit Communication CRC Error (ULTRA-DMA/32)
sense area: F0 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 interpretation: write error

after searching them came to say that the laser may be dirty or that it is fried.
I ran a test to test the burner and it performed normal when burning a test CD but I believe the problem may be from burning dvd's. The burner is a sony DRU V200S SCSi.
I have had this burner for 2 years now and I am at a cross roads as to just buy another burner and test it and if all is good then keep it but if the problem persist than it may just be the via card.
If anyone can help out it would be much appreciated.
redfield out...

[HaGGardSmurf]

2 years, yea man I'd say that burner's seen its day. Burner's have short life times especially if you burn alot. Personally I'd buy a new burner, hell when mine died, I bought 3 new burners for my computer.

A brand new dvd burner is awesome when burning backups, I can burn at 6x when im in a rush, and the game will burn perfectly.

[chris.redfield]

Well i did just that and bought a new burner but now I am receiving this error:

ScsiStatus: 0x02
interpretation: check condition

CDB:2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00
Interpretation: Write (10) - 31

Sense Area: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00 00 00
Interpretation: Invalid Address For Write

Its a brand new drive but this one is running IDE rather than the sata one I just had. I dont understand whats going on can anyone help me out?

redfield out...

[HaGGardSmurf]

IDE/SATA doesnt matter, sata is just a newer faster interface.

What kind of disks are you using?

[trailz]

I know I've seen a DVD drive cleaning disc somewhere... You can try to disassemble it and wipe the lens with a soft cloth that doesn't conduct static. A Qtip, maybe?

[chris.redfield]

I am using verbatim made out of Singapore.
The odd thing is that earlier i tried to burn a standard cd with audio data on it and all i got was a one track disc with nothing written on it.
I am going to try and change the configuration on the drive to be a slave versus a master and see if that can help.

redfield out..

[chris.redfield]

Well i swaped out the ide port from the LG to the primary being as both my HDD are sata and set it to slave and while using IMGBURN with the correct Layer break the "writing leadin" just hung for awhile but it seems to be going. Lets see what the outcome is...
Redfield out...

[chris.redfield]

Well just got another I/O error!

Device: [0:1:0] HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NO20 2.00 (D:) (ATA)

ScsiStatus: 0x02
Interpretation: Check Condition

CDB: 2A 00 00 1D 33 80 00 00 20 00
Interpretation: Write (10)-Sectors: 1913728 - 1913759

Sense Area: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00 00 00
Interpretation: Invalid Address For Write

Well this now shows me that there is something with the Drive and it not liking the layer break.
Does anyone have any opinions on drives to get because I still can go return this puppy.
Anyone for another coaster?>

redfield out...