Problem with my Thinkpad SL500 reading blank DVDs

My SL500 will not read the sony blank DVD brand I. I know that my hard drive is functional. My drive plays DVD fine, he reads the Virgin and regular music CD. If this blank DVD is too recent for the SL500 read, lenovo should release the firmware to fix the problem. Has anyone else has problems with this? Thank you!

Nevermind, just found that this model can not record DVDs, CD only. It's pretty sad given that I bought in 2009... Guess I'll have to look into updating my disk.

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