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I have recently got rid of one of these Philips drives.
There is a common problem with them: the grease inside dries up, even more so when using 80min cd's - which wern't around when the writer was manufactured, hence the extra 6mins of an 80min disc causes even more grease to dry up.
Have you tried MEMOREX 12x 80MIN? Or what about discs made by HICO? You can get these from the Staples store here in the UK.
Of course you can try and re-grease the drive, but I had no success with this at all; the parts are very delicate and don't go back together very easily once you put them back in the metal chassis.
If you can use certain brands and not others, and you used to be able to back certain titles up but not now, them I am 99% sure you've got the grease problem.
If I were you I'd cut my losses - get a faster drive and repair this 2x writer as a side-line (there's an unsubstantiated rumour that burning at 2x causes more damage than at 4,8x etc etc). Also, who's to say the same problem won't happen again?
Shame this drive had to have such a flaw - I never had any trouble backing stuff up as the 3610 can do a full RAW read/write - unlike my new Traxdata model!
Hope this helps ya out in some small way. If you intend to fix the drive with silicon-based grease, please feel free to email me and I'll post the pages I saved when I had the same problems.
All the best.
~~Wayniac~~
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