DVD Burner reads but won't write!

[Gribble]

I have a Phillips DVD+-RW burner that has worked perfectly until recently. It now will read disks, but seems to have trouble writing them. The strange thing is that when I run ActiveISO, it will burn ISO images just fine. I can get ActiveISO to work in both Windows and Ubuntu (using wine) but no other burning software will work in either operating system.

When ActiveISO does it's thing, there is a message that says,
"Sending OPC (Optimum Power Calibration):
"Sending OPC bError"

So I think it might be some sort of voltage/power issue, but I tried the power connector on a different drive it worked fine, enabling burning with the other drive. I also tried using a different power connector and I still have the same issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I hope I can get this thing burning something other than ISO's sometime soon.

 

[The_Other_One]

I'd try the drive in another computer or boot to Linux and try to burn. If the drive continues to fail, you'll just need to get another. Otherwise, we could begin investigating what might be causing the issue.