Blu-ray burning error message

[InfiniteLoopy]

I have an external USB blu-ray player/burner that I'm having trouble burning blu-ray discs with. I've never burned a BD-R before.

The drive can read blu-rays fine, and can burn DVDs fine. It recognizes the blank BD-R discs that I insert, but when I attempt to burn them in Finder, it gives me an error message: ("The disc can't be burned because communication between the computer and the disc drive failed (error code 0x80020022)").

I've tried on two Macs, one running Sierra, the other El Capitan. I've tried with Burn app too. I've reset the PRAM, I've tried different USB ports. I've tried at the lowest burn speed available. It always ejects the disc during the "preparing" stage.

I'm using good quality Verbatim 100GB discs. My burner says that it supports quad-layer discs.

Any suggestions would be helpful, is this the burner, a problem with Mac OS (X), or the discs?

 

[Fishrrman]

What application are you using to do the burning?
Have you tried Toast?

 

[InfiniteLoopy]

What application are you using to do the burning?
Have you tried Toast?

Finder's built-in burning tool and also tried http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

Don't have Toast.

 

[DeltaMac]

Have you tried a standard BD-R (not multi-layer...)?

Does your burner have its own power supply? or, does it get power through the USB bus?

 

[InfiniteLoopy]

Have you tried a standard BD-R (not multi-layer...)?

Does your burner have its own power supply? or, does it get power through the USB bus?

I only bought 100GB as I wanted to copy a lot of data onto a single one. I suppose the next thing to try is to buy some 25GB ones.

It's got a double USB plug, but actually works fine with just one (I did try it with both plugged in too).

Any other ideas?

 

[Audit13]

Tried the burner on another Mac or PC? Burner is running the latest firmware release?

 

[Tech198]

I only bought 100GB as I wanted to copy a lot of data onto a single one. I suppose the next thing to try is to buy some 25GB ones.

It's got a double USB plug, but actually works fine with just one (I did try it with both plugged in too).

Any other ideas?

I would say, if it burns through other applications fine, and it's just Finder, then its not power issue.. Usually the double usb plugs can be used in case there is not enough power from one.... its not always required and depends on power drawn from the usb port and external drive

So ya,, Toast is probably the best. You have allot more choices in Widows.