The Sony DW-D22A worked great when it worked but it stopped recognizing blank dvd's after some time. Used to work fine with my Taiyo Yudens, then tried a different brand after those ran out and it would not recognize them, so I thought it was just picky and I got the TY's again now it does not recognize them either.

This drive worked great for over 3 years, then it flaked out - it picked and chose when to work and when not to. Loading Linux Live-CD .iso's started to work erradically. Guess it gave up after 3+ years. My first CD\DVD to crap out in all the years of computing.

Sony offer no help at all on the Sony DW-D22A DVD Writer. The tech and customer service departments are very unhelpful. The DVD Writer does not read and it doesn't burn.

I have used 7 of these in a DVD duplicator for a year now, and I have burned over a 1000 DVD's and about 200 CD's, and they have worked very well. I would highly recommend the Sony DW-D22A DVD Writer.

It was fun at first, but it would not recognize a DVD after 1 year. It also makes very loud and strange noises while loading.

I have a new DVD burner on the way, which will replace the Sony DW-D22A DVD writer, as it's a piece of junk.

In retrospect I think my A-open DVD RW DL is a much better buy than my Sony DW-D22A and comes with extra face plates for color considerations!
These guys want our bussiness Sony is getting to big for it's britches.

Bought a Sony DW-D22A and it worked fine for about 5 months. Now it will not read a blank cd or dvd. No help from Sony. They do not even list it as their product and will not answer e-mail concerning it

I bought the Sony DW-D22A burner from a local computer store in Barbados on 25 May 2005. I started to use it seriously in August 2005. By 29 August 2005 it had failed. Would not read any cds or dvds! I checked the invoice for the purchase of the burner and it said that the drive had a 3 months warranty. I called the store and they told me....sorry can't honour the warranty....even though only 4 days had passed since the expiration of the warranty.
Stay very far away from this drive. If had done my research before I would not have bought it!

er...the Sony DW-D22A won't read or burn ANYTHING. Uninstalled, installed again several times. Nope.

A dud from Sony!!

I bought a SONY VAIO VGC-RB30 PC that came with this burner, I didn't use the burner until after my 30 day return policy expired and now that I have tried I discovered that it wont read ANY CD's, I can't get any help from Sony's support sites (canada has limited support for some reason) because their site does not even list this burner, their 1-800-4sonypc help line does not list this pc, and my e-mails have gone unanswered. So now I must send my pc to the retailer for warrenty and wait to see what they say. I will keep you posted on my results.

The Sony DW-D22A is brilliant and does everything I want it to, I've had it for 6 months and had no problems with it so far. :D

Purchased the Sony DW-D22A in February 2005, this drive has never worked. Searching Sony's site for a DW-D22A model of drive returns no results. Apparently Sony will not admit to making it. I have also found similar symptoms on hardware help sites, no fixes were noted there either. It's either a case of high failure rate or the retailer knows they're faulty and are attempting to dump their stock.

Avoid this drive!