DVD Drive does not writes DVD

I have lenovo G580.
I am not able to write DVDs from my Laptop. I have MAT**bleep**A DVD-RAM UJ8C1. It sometimes detects the blank DVD and sometimes doesn't. And even if it detects the blank DVD, as soon as I start the burning process, the drive ejects the disk saying "An error occured while writing disk". The same DVDs work fine on my Samsung Laptop. I even used different brands of DVDs but same problem occured every time.
I couldn't find any driver for the optical drive on the support website.
I have no issue with reading and writing CDs.

Hellow!
I have the Lenovo G580 (Lenovo Solution Center reports #20150). It has the TSST Corp. CDDVDW SN-208DB CD-ROM. It normally writes common CD and DVD through Windows 8.1. However it cannot write dual layer DL DVD for 8.5 Gbytes.

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