Please, can anyone throw some light on my difficulties. Ever since I bought this machine I have been unable to record (except at the start). I have bought many different disc makes and speeds plus and minus but no luck. I must be doing something wrong but I have yet to find out. When I load a new disc I get the following:

RECORD

FAILED TO INITIALISE ERASE DISC?

PRESS OK

DVD ERASE

ERASING DISC PLEASE WAIT


FAILED TO ERASE DISC

Press ok and disc comes out. Very frustrating!