Hmm, searching on the net regarding the CRC error shows lots of very old posts with issues regarding IDE cables. Of course, this drive is SATA, but thought I might as well give it a go - I have some spare new unused SATA cables. So I've swapped the cable over and the drive still has tremendous difficulties reading the initial TOC, but once it gets through that, an ImgBurn verify seems to be OK.
I then cancelled that as it was going to take forever but only after ensuring it had progressed way further than it did before reporting the errors. I've now reloaded AnyDVD and it no longer says it failed to send host key. It's in the process of making an image (so far so good).
I then cancelled that as it was going to take forever but only after ensuring it had progressed way further than it did before reporting the errors. I've now reloaded AnyDVD and it no longer says it failed to send host key. It's in the process of making an image (so far so good).
@Blazkowicz - have you tried using another SATA cable? If the problem appears on different discs but the same drive, I'd give a cable swap a go.Any other idea what I can try? The drives are uhd-friendly or else they would not work with other disks.