DVD writer problem - not K3b related

Dear all,

Thanks for providing such an excellent program and forum to follow. I am not 
an expert at all, therefore please excuse my dumb question. This probably is 
not completely within the scope of this forum, but I trust the expertise of 
the people in this forum, so please accept my apologies in advance if this is 
not an appropriate question.

I have two computers at home (Dell & Compaq) which I had to replace the DVD 
writers for the third time in 1.5 years. The problem was almost the same 
everytime. 2 out of 3 times, DVD writer failed to recognize the DVD (printed 
or blank or burned -/+R) in the drive, whereas it would recognize the CD/CDR 
and burn it. 1 out of these 3 times, DVD writer just failed to do the 
opposite, meaning that it would recognize the CDs but not the DVDs. To my 
understanding, I guess there are different photosensors in the drive to 
recognize CDs and DVDs and the problems I encounter happen when one of these 
are out. Now my question is, am I being very unlucky, or this has happened to 
people here before? This should not have anything to do with the software 
used either, right? Because I use K3b exclusively for all my needs.

There were questions from the manufacturers whether this might be a virus, 
rootkit, etc. However, since the problem is reproducible with both Windows XP 
and Linux, I guess this possibility is ruled out, right? And yes, the problem 
resolves when I replace the DVD writer, and hopefully this wasn't an 
expensive solution for a simple(?) problem!

Thanks 

Hakan

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