Satellite P30: it doesn't recognise DVD discs correctly

Hello I have a Satellite P30, I am unable to read DVD's or CD when I try to open the DVD or CD the explorer session seems to hang for a while then comes up with a blank DVD-RAM Drive screen with the option on the left to write files to CD. I have installed the latest drivers and BIOS for my Laptop.
I'm at a loss, all was working fine till recently the PC does'nt seem to recognise I have a cd drive or normalDVD drive it just see's it as a DVD RAM drive.
when I put a dvd in the light on the side flashes orange and the system just hangs for a while .I sometimes get an I/O error when trying to read from a cd. What ever I put in it thinks i want to write files

The matsu****a UJ-830s is about as sketchy as dvd drives come. Mine flat out refuses to read, or write for that matter about 90% of the media I've tried in it. I find the only disks it will write are the Taiyo Yuden 16x or 8x media, rebranded as sony. They're the ones with the octagonal foam spacer at the top of the 50 or 25 pack, rather than the round spacer.
It isn't any concern that it shows up as a DVD-RAM drive, as that is what it always does anyway. I highly recommend if you can't get it working, to purchase an external burner, and forget about the one onboard.
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