Should I be able to read burned DL DVD's?

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The drive whirs and clunks for a few minutes, then spits them out without comment. Seems this should work, but I never tried it until now - so I don't know if this is new behaviour. Normal, or a problem?

Try reading a regular commercial movie DVD with Apple's DVD player. If that works, then the drive was made before DL became popular enough to be considered by Apple's built-in DVD players. Earlier DVD players were only for DVD-R single layer, and DVD-ROM. You can also find out more about the kind of discs your computer will read by going to Apple menu -> About This Mac -> More Info -> Disc Burning inside System Profiler, as well as reading the ATA/IDE bus to learn which make and model burner is in your machine.

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