Burn always fails at the beginning

Hello,
I've a Mac Pro with two DVD burners installed. I have purchased them separately, because the original ones had a mechanical problem so I changed them.
I can burn fine with the one plugged as master, but the slave one always gives the same problem (I'm using Toast): when it starts writing the lead-in, it hangs for a couple of seconds, doing apparently nothing, and then finally manages to continue normally. When the disk is verified by Toast, it always fails because the sector 0 can't be read. Further, once the OS tries to read the disk, I get the “SAM Multimedia: read or write failed” messages in the Console, along with random “Unable to probe disk” strings, until it gives up and says the disk is blank.
However, devices which don't need to carefully understand the disk format (such as plain DVD readers for TVs) can read the disk just fine, meaning only the lead-in (the first sector) has the problem.
I think I've already read a similar story, but I can't remember the solution. Advices welcome!

Thanks. I verified and it was unchecked.
But I fail to see how it would block burning the data for around 15 seconds and then resume. Can you tell me?

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