SuperDrive Rejects All Media

[SubaruNation555]

My MacBook Pro (2.2GHz Santa Rosa) will not mount any media with the exception of some commercially produced DVDs. I am trying to install Adobe CS4 and the drive will take the disk but just spit it back out after trying to read it several times. The DVD works just fine on the MacBook in the house so it's not the disk. Also, it does the same thing with burned CDs or DVDs. I have tired a dozen different disks, resetting the computer and restarting the SMC. Any other suggestions before I make an appointment with a Genius? Thanks and here are the details of the drive:

HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N:

Firmware Revision: AP09
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds

 

[tamasvarga67]

I had the same problem with the same drive - same firmware revision too - in my MBP 2.4 SR. It played/accepted the commercial DVDs and I was able to burn CDs with iTunes but no luck with DVDs (just sometimes with Verbatim discs) no matter what I tried. When the unibody MBP came out I sold it and I bought a new "old" MBP 2.5 which has the same drive with AP12 firmware. It works so far...
So just save your time and make an appointment with a Genius not much else you can do. It seems to be a common problem there are couple of topics about it.