Ladies and Gentlemen:
the best choice for your subchannel-reading-experiences is "TATAAA": the fine Toshiba SD-M Series (mine is an old 1302).
Hear my words: if you want to get rid of that crap your dealer normally invites you to buy from his store, just ask him to get a Toshi. I had many problems with other DVD- and CD-ROM-drives in the PAST!!! Never had any with this - reads everything fast enough and is worth its (ok-ok, it sh´dn´t be that expensive...)
money.
The rest is:
Regards, Kungaan