Hi jadburner,
50% off-topic - have you checked BD-R readability of this drive? I don't know if my copy is dying after reading maybe 10-20 discs, but I noticed that it doesn't read some discs - it recognizes media type, reads MID code, but claims that media is empty.
So far I came to a following list:
Kod:
MID TS-LB23D
CMCMAG-BA3-000 "empty" (TDK)
CMCMAG-BA5-000 50%
CMCMAG-BA5-000 ok
CMCMAG-BA5-000 ok
CMCMAG-BA5-000 ok
CMCMAG-DI6-000 ok
INFOME-R30-000 "empty" (Philips)
MEI-RA1-001 ok
MEI-T01-001 ok
MEI-T02-001 ok
PHILIP-R04-000 ok
RITEK-BR2-000 ok
TDKBLD-RBB-000 "empty" (FTI Pro)
UMEBDR-016-000 "empty" (Kodak)
VERBAT-IMa-000 ok
VERBAT-IMc-000 ok
VERBAT-IMe-000 ok
VERBAT-IMu-000 "empty" (Verbatim LTH)
I assume that it can be an issue of my unit, but strangely it reads flawlessy terrible copies of PHILIP-R04 or BD-RE DL...