I'm getting burn error message "super drive was unable to burn and cannot retry"

I have a 4 year old macbook pro 17' the super drive has rarely been used . today I was burning my iphoto library to dvd & was about half way thru ( already sucessfully burned 5 disks) when I put the next blank disk in the drive it started the pre burn process ejected the disk and the message appeared (superdrive is unable to burn disk and unable to retry)
The drive still reads ok but when I put a blank disk in it wont even show up on the desktop , a disk with info on it will show up on desk top.
Im using osx lion 10.7.5.
MY QUESTION IS , IS THERE A DIAGNOSTIC TEST I CAN RUN TO PINPOINT THE PROBLEM WITH BURNING ON THE SUPERDRIVE?
ANY SUGGESTIONS WILL BE MOST WELCOME!!!!!!

I have the experience that Super Drive can read however can't write to the media trouble.
You'd better take your Macbook Po wiith blank DVD media to Genius Bar to show them the circumstance you have.

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