DR4-A doesn't burn

Have recently installed a DR4-A DVD Burner and it refuses to burn. The system specs are AMD 2000+, 640 MB Ram, 40GB HDD, XP Service Pack 1. Burner Firmware has been upgraded to 2.50. Running as Master on IDE2. It shows up in Device Manager as ATAPI DVD DUAL 4X.
Tried both CD-R and DVD-RW disks and it doesn't burn. It states that the disk is full even though they are blank or Re-Writeable.
I have tried using Windows XP, Roxio Easy CD/DVD, and Creator, Nero.
Any thoughts
Thanks
Ferris...

Have you tried other brands of the media?
If you place an Audio CD or other original CD, does it read correctly?

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