Lately when I go to burn a CD I get the following message: "The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry."
I try another CD and it sometimes works. I'm guessing it's working about 1 out of 3 tries, maybe 50/50. Is this simply my burner going bad?
Nope. The "burn window" seemed to show it was working but when it was "finished" there was only only a little burned section on the disc. I put it into my boombox which registered 1:56 but when I hit play there was silence.
If it won't work in Finder as well, you're likely looking at a drive issue. Try testing it in a new user and see what happens. That may further narrow it down to hardware vs software.