DVD/CD-RW drive won't read a DVD+R/DL disc

Hi,
Has anybody had problems with reading a DVD+R/DL disc on a Macbook with a MATSHITACD-RW CW-8221 revision GA0J drive. A client sent me a Fuji 4X (manufactured by Ritek) DVD+R/DL disc with about 5.43G bytes of data.
I know the drive on my Macbook can only burn CDs, and that seems OK. It is supposed to be able to read any DVD format, though write any DVD format. Commercial DVDs and single layer DVDs seem to be OK, but the DL dvd just spits out after a few seconds. I get the same reaction in Windows vVsta on the Macbook, installed with Bootcamp.
The same DVD+R/DL disc reads just fine on an Acer 3680 notebook with a cheap CD-RW/DVD pop-out style drive. Nero's utility prrogram, on the Acer, says the DVD+R/DL is OK, but notes it is not finalized - which it isn't supposed to be - as the client is planning to add more data in another session. Based on what I've read on OSTA.org's web site, the +R format (unlike the -R format) should be transportable between disc readers without needing to be finalized.
I am glad I have an external hard disk drive to read the files on the Acer and move them to the Macbook.
Has anybody else run into this and/or found a flash update for the Macbook's optical drive?
Bill

Have the same problem. I've spent last day to find the cause of this problem, but I still have no ideas how to make my MacBook C2D read DVD-R DL DVDs. I was trying to read blank Verbatim DVD-R DL 4x and Verbatim DVD-R 8x filled with data but both are still just spits out after 15-20 seconds. And during spinning the disc MacBook's optical drive emits a few beeps (very quiet but easy to hear).
Sory for my english it's not my native language

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