Communication to the disk drive failed

i've experienced this problem after burning 3 dvds, it appeared on the fourth but the data was still burned on the cd. Now i am trying to burn some of my files on the cd and it appeared again, this time it didn't burn the file at all.what could be the problem?

I get this error randomly and only since I installed Leopard. I never had any issues like this before.
My drive is also: MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857
I tried various media. Cheap stuff and brand media as well. I even tried Apple's own DVDs and still get the same error. What is interesting is that if I leave about 1GB of the drive empty, the burning completes.
I noticed that the errors usually happen toward the end of the burning, so that is why I decided to leave some space unused. Of course this way I can fit only about 3GBs of data on the disc, but at least I don't have to waste them completely. I had about 10 bad discs yesterday, so you can probably understand that it was getting a bit frustrating.
Did anyone find a good solution to this issue? Restarting does not work in my case.

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Hi everyone, just thought I'd update the thread.
Last night i did a clean install of Leopard over the top of Tiger, and now the DVD drive works without the error. I was able to burn a full disk with no problem.
I thought, incase google bring someone here, I'd post my sequence of events incase it helps someone.
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http://www.bbqiguana.com/2010/02/macos-x-error-0x80020022-trying-to-burn-dvds/

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rpignard wrote:
Any advice or ways to fix that once and for all ?
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