Power Mac won't work with 16x media

I cannot get my superdrive to burn to 16x media, the burn process never actually starts burning. 8x media work fine. the drive itself is a 4x

I had the same issue and here is how I finally resolved it.
The issue lies with the firmware in your optical drive. I have a Pioneer DVR-108 and when I tried to burn 16x media, the fastest it would allow was 4x.
At the time, there was no way for me to "flash" the drive in my G5 (but now I understand there are stand-alone programs that will allow this). So, I pulled the DVR-108 out and stuck it into an external Firewire case. I then took it over to a friend's house. He has a Windows box with Firewire ports. I connected it to the machine and then he went to Pioneer's web site and downloaded the executable file to "flash" the drive. I went all the way to the most recent (at the time) version. I believe it was 1.20 (but don't quote me on this). Included was a nice "fact sheet" that listed all of the incremental revisions and what issues they addressed. Sure enough, some of them were things like "Support added for 16x media...".
Once I got the drive home and back into the tower, all of the issues were resolved. I am nearly certain this will fix your problem. You need to upgrade the firmware to add support for 16x media.
Hope this helps!

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