DVD arrived, still not satisfied

After the company ordering system said that it would be several days before I got my DVD burner, my boss sent his secretary out across the street to Staples, who have one on sale for $50. I got it and installed it, but unfortunately I can’t burn to it. I get the following error:
Blocks total: 2297888 Blocks current: 2297888 Blocks remaining: 948384
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
trackno=0
BURN-Free is OFF.
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
Starting new track at sector: 1349670
Track 01: 0 of 2635 MB written./usr/bin/dvdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 14 98 26 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x02 (logical block address out of range) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 200s

I think I’m going to have to shut down again and check that I’ve got the devices jumpered correctly.