Lacie external DVD/CD burner

I bought an external burner to reduce the wear and tear on the internal optic drive and because the Lacie burner is twice as fast. The model I have comes with a 400 firewire port so I have it daisy chained to a bunch of external hard drives. When I first got the burner, it worked like a charm and I could knock off maybe 10 DVDs in a row before I would give it a rest. Now, almost every DVD is rejected during the verification process even after I let it rest for as long as 20 minutes (the length it takes the internal optic drive to burn a DVD). Has the burner died or am I daisy chaining it to too many hard drives?

I'm talking abouot the Intel computer - that's my primary computer. There are four externals daisy chained together and the burner is plugged in to one of them. Fortunately, I have a cable with a 400 firewire connection on one end (the burner has only 400 ports) and a 800 connection on the other end, so I can connect the burner directly to the computer. Thanks for the tip on burning 3 DVDs before letting it cool down. Will keep this in mind the next time I have to burn a whole bunch of DVDs. Will post back early next month since I don't have any projects right at the moment.
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