Whirring Noises while Burning Sony DVD

Hi Everyone;
I'm wondering if anyone else is having this problem - I'd like to determine if it's a hardware (Matisha DVD-R UJ-846) or media problem. On occasions, when I go to burn a DVD, the drive makes a very loud, deep, whirring noise - like it's spinning up, then down, then up (and so-on). This is with toast 6, btw. If I leave it going, it returns an error (I'm not sure what the error is right now - I now cancel it because anything that makes that sort of noise can't be good...)
This is with Sony DVD-R media burnt at 4x (disk allows up to 8x, but have read elsewhere that the Superdrives don't like 8x media) but would this be enough to cause that sort of noise? Or does it require a trip to Apple?
The main problem is that it isn't consistent - I've successfully burnt some, and not others, but am reluctant to keep it running should it cause some internal damage...
Any help would be appreciated.
Ben
PB 15" 1.67 (HiRes) 1G RAM Mac OS X (10.4.3) The Last of the Powerbooks...

For anyone searching:
The problem was simply the media. Changing to some another brand of disks fixed the problem.

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