DVD-R Drive ejects blank discs.

I have an Intel iMac G5. My DVD-R drive ejects all blank discs. No error message comes up, just some mechanical noises prior to ejection. Having trouble finding the right drivers to fix this, if it is a driver issue.

yes, there are countless blank media types, and there is NO DVD burner out there that will feed them all.
DID you switch to a new DVD blank media?
Also cheap DVD blank media has about a 10% reject ratio......try further down the stack
hard lessons learned after burning many 10s of 1000s of DVDs.
If it also ejects commercial DVD movies, you have a dirty laser diode lens.

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