Answering to my question. I've just updated the firmware of the drive to 1.73 from 1.71
Seems to of solved the problem. The drive was SONY DVD RW AW-G170A Hope this helps someone? -- Nautilus-cd-burner is unable to blank DVD-RW https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/53962 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs