I have had exactly the same problem with a BENQ DVD DD DW1620 drive and haven't been able to find a proper fix, however based on what Waldgeist_dl said I just set the drive to slave (it's the only ide device in my computer) and everything is now working fine. No mounted blank disc with no media present, writing discs and blanking dvd-rw discs is working fine with Brasero and the eject button works :).
sudo hdparm -w /dev/hda sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hda Those commands worked in as much as I could read discs, but not writing, the same as everyone else here I guess. -- hdc: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223780 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs