I've tried everything I can possibly think of. I hope someone comes up with a solution for me!

I have a Sony dru 500ax with the newest firmware installed in it. I'm running this under windows xp sp1. Any program I attempt to burn either a cd-r, or a dvd-r in, says the media in the drive is cd-rom, or dvd-rom respectively. The drive is working, the computer knows it's a burner, but it cant recognize ANY media as being writable.... anyone had this problem before?

I apologize if this has been covered... I searched quite a bit before posting.

Thanks in advance!