Superdrive won't write dvds anymore

I have toast and Popcorn - everytime I try to write a dvd I get a sense error message - this happens as it's trying to write the lead in - which suggests that the it is unable to write - any suggestions?

I did verify and repair permissions - how did so many get damaged? - but that made no difference - however your comment about media is spot on there appears to have been a few bad discs in the stack - I had successfully used about 80 of the 100 but then there were about 4 or 5 which gave the error message - now it seems to be working just fine again. Thanks for your reply
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