Burnt DVD's appearing as blank CD's

Hi,
New Macpro is reading some DVD's as blank CD's, hence archived material is not available. This problem is consistent on any particular disc yet does not occur to all discs of the same type and burnt on the same (not the Macpro)machine under identical conditions. The offending discs can be read on other machines no problem. Firmware is up to date.
Any suggestions? Anyone else experienced this?
Thanks,
Glenn.
G4 dual867 & 1.67PBOOK & G5 2.5quad & MacMini(Intel 166Duo) & Macpro 2.66Ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   etc

Hi,
I'm having the same problem.
My Mac Pro is a week old and it won't read Verbatim Double Layer DVD+R discs. I have quite a bit of work that has been backed to these discs that were burned on my old G5 quad.
All i get when i put them in the Mac Pro is a blank disc with "CDR" icon on the desktop.
Strangely, i can access the disc using an imac (also a week old) over the network.
It'd be great to find a solution as its getting a little inconvenient have to access the disc over the network.
cheers
Lee

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