Can't burn CDs - "Internal Target Failure"

I've burned thousands of discs with no problems on this Mac which I bought in July 2005. Today three consecutive attempts yielded the following error message:
Sense key: HARDWARE ERROR
Sense code: 0x44, 0x8E
INTERNAL TARGET FAILURE
Burner is the Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-109.
Was using some generic Philips discs for the first two but this also happened with a Taiyo Yuden.
Using Toast 7.0.1 and Toast 8 to do the burning.

I am getting the same error messages when I try to burn CDs with my Pioneer DVR-112. The drive quit recognizing any CD, and will not burn CD-R (audio/data), regardless of brand (I have tried Verbatim, TDK, Memorex, etc.), at any speed (not even 1X), from either Toast, the desktop, iTunes, etc. I keep getting coasters, and Hardware error messages. However, it has no trouble burning DVD-R/DVD+R. I RMA-ed the defective drive back to OWC and they will analyze it. The other Pioneer replacement drive I bought at the same time for my home G5 seems to be working OK at this time (knock on wood), hopefully it was a just a glitch in Pioneer's quality control.
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