Superdrive Issues... pleeeeease help!!

Hi,
This issue has been raised before but appears not to have been resolved...
My iBook's drive will read both DVDs and CDs as normal, but automatically ejects writable disks of any nature. There's no error message but a bit of the usual drive whirring and clicking takes place.
Can anybody provide some ideas to fix the problem??
Many thanks!
Ed

Whirring and clicking (especially clicking) suggest to me that this might be a mechanical issue rather than software.
I'm hardly the expert though.
If it is a bad drive (sometimes they break down) the good news is replacements are far less expensive than they used to be.

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