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> I am having a problem with my DVD drive (Philips SDVD8431 firmware
> LX51), it seems to be picky about what DVDs it will play. I wrote a
> Suse 10.2 iso to a DVD (Datawrite titanium -r) at work and when I
> came to use it the laptop was throwing up all kinds of errors saying
> the DVD was faulty. I used Nero to scan the DVD and on my laptop it
> came up with about 20% damaged and 10% errors, however the same scan
> of the DVD on my desktop showed 100% success. I wrote another DVD of
> the ISO (this time on Verbatum +R) and got the same problem again,
> yet it scans fine on my desktop. I connected an old DVD-rom drive to
> my laptop via a USB->IDE cable and the DVD worked absolutely fine.
> Since then I have used nero to scan an original movie and Autoroute
> 2007 both of them worked fine. But I also scanned a friends wedding
> DVD on Memorex +r media and it showed lots of errors. So it looks
> like it can play originals fine but writable DVDs are a problem. If
> I try to write to a DVD from the laptop it fails a couple of minutes
> after starting with tons of errors. Can anybody offer any advice on
> what to try, laptop is still under warranty, 2 months remaining so
> sending back is an option although Id rather not if possible.
>
> Gav