Pioneer CD/DVD 103 Superdrive - spits out blank DVD

I am using Toast 7 to burn CD's and DVD's. I have no trouble burning CD's. DVD's are another story. I was only able to burn the DVD that came with the machine. The Sony DVD+R disks that I purchased will not burn - the tray opens up after 20 seconds or so.
Any suggestions? Am I purchasing the wrong type of recordable DVD?

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That drive (DVR-103) was only designed to burn 2X DVD media (-R format only).
You may find 4X media that the drive will still accept (it will only burn @ 1X, if at all).
Some new 16X media is rated 1-16X; check the packaging, if it does not specifically state this, then it most likely won't work. Sony (Made In Japan, not Made In Taiwan which is poor quality) 16X media is rated as such, so it may work.
You may find that it is cheaper to replace the drive for a DVR-111D or ND-3550A (under $40 online, try newegg.com as one resource), so that you can make use of most quality brands of currently available -/+R media (nd burn much faster).
If you choose to do this, you need to look at the "OEM PC" drives listed above, they ship as a bare drive, with no PC software/retail packaging; this is all you need.
There are a couple of additional things to do when installing any 3rd party drive in a Mac . You can search discussions for either model # for much more info...

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