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I tried Sony's accucore 1-8x and 1-16x brand DVD-Rs in the finder and using Toast and I get a Sense Key Hardware Error every time. Maxel brands seem to work fine. The Sony disks worked in my DUAL layer Powerbook drive and in my dual layer G5 just fine, so I was very surprised. I had thought that Sony were makers of high quality disks. Am I wrong? Can anyone duplicate this? I tried various different burning speeds, even 1x. No dice. I purchased mine at staples (two different batches) and they came in a gold wrapper-colored spindle.
PS. I have the UJ-857 burner with firmware version HBE4

Follow-up:
I am now also able to definitively say that all my previously burned home movies (toast and imovie generated) that were burned from my previous G5 Powermac to any Imation 8x DVD+R disks will not mount on my macbook's UJ-857. When I put any of them in, it mounts as a blank DVD and the finder asks me what to do. I tried this with about 10 different finalized imation DVD+R disks. The frustrating thing is that they all are scratch free and play fine in my standalone DVD player(s). Can anyone else duplicate this problem? I am wondering if I have a defective superdrive. It burns maxell DVD-Rs fine. It also seems to play rental store DVDs just fine as well.
Why is my drive so picky? I know for a fact that the Imation disks were high-quality disks purchased at retail locations (staples, etc)
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