Suddenly I cannot burn DVD on my Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-112D

Hi, bought 100 DVD's of a brand I always used and suddenly I cannot burn these DVD's. Tried it with the Mac utility, Disk utility and Roxio Toast Titanium 10. No success. These DVD's do burn on myMacBook Pro running under the same MacOSX 10.6.8.
Re-installed the OS, ran Applejack to repair any errors, but no success. Phoned Mac in Holland, no idea. What could be the cause and how do I repair it. I have 2 SuperDrives and both exhibit the same behaviour. Pioneer has several Firmupdates but only for PC, not for Mac.
Regards,
arnold

Later (higher speed) DVD-Rs can require the latest firmware update in older drives to burn successfully. I believe the DVR-112D is up to v.1.28: look here:
http://www.pioneer.eu/uk/support/software/tax/950/index.html
Even if there's only a "PC" updater, you still need to do the update. Easiest way - temporarily install the drive in an external USB case, and connect it to a PC, and run the update from there. A pain, but necessary.

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