Superdrive doesn't recognize blank disks

Was trying to burn some photo's to a disk today. When I inserted a blank disk into the superdrive, it would come up and ask what action to take. I would select open Finder. Then it would come back and say disk not recognized. I tried two brands of DVD's and one CD. I have used each of these in the drive before with no issue.
Then I moved the files to my MBP and burned the photo's to disk with no issue. After burning, I reinserted the disk into the iMac and it could read the disk with no issue.
Anyone seen this before and have advice before I call applecare ??

Are you by chance using a Western Digital external hard drive with your computer? I am having that same exact problem and I can't figure out what is causing it! I have reinstalled my os like 5 times and when I move my applications back I keep running into the same problem. I've tried just putting them back one at a time but I didn't run into the problem until I reboot my computer. I'm curious if my hard drive's software is what's causing the problem, because I had installed my hard drive's software about 3 days before it started doing this.

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