DVD Drive Failure to Calibrate power lever....

I'm having an issue with my dvd burner. I've tried both Toast Titanium & Disk Utility and when trying to burn data in Toast and an .dmg file in Disk Utility I get "The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media". What can I do to get my burner back to "normal"? I'm close to taking the whole thing out to a field and using it for baseball "practice".

I was able to get the dvd lens working again. I had found some postings on other sites about the same issue, and some people had mentioned that using a lens cleaner had allowed them to burn discs again.
Therefore I used one that I picked up a while back and that cleared up the dvd lens. I may have to replace the lens in another year or 2 but not just yet.

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