DVD-WRITERS - incompatible?

[BelchermanBTC]

>I have a MACH - 12 cd DVD dvd- and dvd plus Recorder. I burn a dvd disc and
> things work fine on it and the disk. At home I have a TOSHIBA dvd- and dvd+
> Writer. When I burn a dvd on the Mach-12 and put it into the Toshiba it says
> ther i no disc in the drive and the light stays on all the time until I take
> out the disc. I am using easy cd creator 6. I am jsut wondering if there is
> a compatibility issue between dvd writers and the way they write data or is
> there a trick to write data in a very general format so that most writers
> will be able to use it.
>