Failed Burn

You're wondering how to deal with the "DRStatusStateFailed" message? Well, there are two possibilities.

1. You burned too fast, a reduced speed may work
2. Your drive is not compatible.

Yes it's possible that a CD Burner that can read CD+G media can fail to burn viable discs. This has happened to a number of people. You can tell your drive is simply not compatible if you get the failure message right away. If your drive proceeds thru the burn but later ejects the disc, this indicates you may have burned too fast.

Check Your Drive Compatibility.

If you want me to verify this for you I'm happy to do so. Please send me a system Profiler report on your "Disc Burning" capability. To do this:

1. Apple Menu->About This Mac...
2. Click "More Info…"
3. In the window that comes up, under "Hardware", click "Disc Burning"
4. If you have more than one disc burner, select the one you used to burn
5. Select all that text on the right, and copy it.
6. Paste it into an <email>dave@kjams.com|email to me</email>, or into the Feedback Form.
7. Send it

Mine looks like this:

 PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W5224A:

 Firmware Revision:           1.03
 Interconnect:                FireWire
 Burn Support:                Yes (PatchBurn)
 Profile Path:                None
 Cache:                       2048 KB
 Reads DVD:                   No
 CD-Write:                    -R, -RW
 Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
 Write Strategies:            CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw
 Media:                       No