I very recently bought a Pioneer 111d...The firmware is the stock v 1.19
I have successfully backed up most of my 360 games with absolutely no problems.
Until now...
I backed up my G.R.A.W. 360 Game and have been playing with it, took it along with my 360 over to my friend's house and ended up dropping my disc.
End result;
disc got a pretty nice scratch in it, and now the damn thing won't play.
So I threw away the disc, and went to my computer to replace my backup.
Any "backup" image that I throw at it now, doesn't seem to burn right. Instead of the disc burning at 1x, or @ 2.4x....
All I can get the 111d to do now, is burn at 0.11x
The burner will have about a 1 minute pause where it will sit and say its beginning goes to the write speed the burner is set at for a split second, and then drops AND stays at 0.11x. There is no akward loud drive noise.

I am using the Highly recommended Verbatim Dvd+r DL discs...bought the 20pack of them from Best Buy, (over $50.00)

So is my burner toast or what is really goin' on?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

First off...Defrag your hard drive.

Second off make sure your IDE Channel to your main C:\ is not on the same IDE Cable as your burner.

If the problem still persists go for a exchange for your burner.

I find the best drive to use in the PC is a Western Digital Raptor. Just one of those in any crappy PC will make the PC Windows run flawless and induce way less stress on the burner while messing around with the PC while the burn progresses.

Yea, thats all I have are the Raptor drives...nice and speeedy.

I'm thinkin' either a defective burner, or a defective batch of the Verbatim's at this point.

Don't discount a firmware issue either. Your revision is a couple of versions old and it would be well worth the upgrade IMHO. Seen these sorts of issues happen before and they have been fixed by firmware updates. So I would do that before you pitch the drive.

Upgraded firmware to 1.23....I might try upgrading to 1.29 but at this point I don't think it will help...

Below are snippets of the Burn Failure log from Nero when I SIMPLY tried burning a MP3 CD...

There were a large # of these lines listed:
9:47:40 PM #58 Text 0 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 1288
21:47:40.218 - PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D\H0 T0 : Queue again later


THen below those was this...

9:48:13 PM #120 SCSI -1135 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 1436
SCSI Exec, HA 0, TA 0, LUN 0, buffer 0x06B40000
Status: 0x04 (0x01, SCSI_ERR)
HA-Status 0x00 (0x00, OK)
TA-Status 0x02 (0x01, SCSI_TASTATUS_CHKCOND)
Sense Key: 0x03 (KEY_MEDIUM_ERROR)
Sense Code: 0x0C
Sense Qual: 0x00
CDB Data: 0x2A 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xC3 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
Sense Data: 0x71 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x10 0x59 0x58 0x0E
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0C 0x00

9:48:13 PM #121 CDR -1135 File Writer.cpp, Line 311
Write error

9:48:13 PM #122 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 228
all writers idle, stopping conversion

9:48:13 PM #123 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 222
conversion idle, stopping reader

9:48:14 PM #124 CDR -201 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 200
Invalid write state
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D\H0 T0

9:48:14 PM #125 TRANSFER -18 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 200
Could not perform EndTrack

9:48:14 PM #126 Text 0 File Mmc.cpp, Line 16275
<PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D> start Close Session

9:48:34 PM #127 Phase 38 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1832
Burn process failed at 32x (4,800 KB/s)

Any ideas? I was using sony cdrs and have NEVER had a problem with them...even @ 32x or 40x
I even burned @ 24x no luck...

WoW.... I swapped my brand new Pioneer 111d with another brand new Pioneer 111d and
it is still burning @ 0.11x!!!!!
I even flashed it to v 1.23

Nothing burns, not even audio cds

Oh shit, did you check the jumpers on your drives and make sure that DMA when available was enabled? Pioneers have a bit of an ego as it were. They tend to perform best when they are set as the master.

Which position is the master on the back of the 111d? There is no labeling on the back, as my burner did not come with a diagram, since it was OEM from Newegg.
It is currently in the far right position.
: : : :<---
The 111d is the only drive in my PC for everyone's information...

There is labeling on the drive. Anyways mine is set to master for sure and it is in the slot closest to the IDE cable (would be far right as you are facing the back of the drive). Have you checked to make sure that the DMA is enabled?

The jump is set to Master...
DMA is enabled I believe, here is what my device manager has the 111d set at:
Ultra DMA 2 - Ultra33

It should be set to DMA When Available, I believe.

<yawn> ... 120gigx4 promise stripe - burner has it's own channel, so does my ripping dvd-rom.

... nice not having these bottlenecks.

sounds like your OS is broken. May have nothing to do with the drive or the hardware... if u have a spare machine, put the drive in that box - install clonecd - and burn.

Guarantee it'll go at 2.4 or whatever ur trying to do.