this message is to for radical. Im not sure if you resolved your sata dvd drive burning issue but i had the exact same issue or possibly maybe even a little worse. anytime i would put blank media in the sata dvd drive to try n burn somethin it would start to spin up to speed and it would say it was writing but it would just sit there and spin forever. then when i try to cancel or stop the program my system would just lock up. it got to the point to whenever i even placed a blank in the drive wothout even trying to burn anything it would lock up. but then i tried a regular ide drive and it worked just fine.