Cu Samsung am amintiri neplăcute de pe vremea CD-urilor. DVD-urile sunt MULT mai pretențioase decât CD-urile la împerecherea dintre blank și unitatea optică.
Să vedem ce zice Google 
There are two common causes for power calibration errors.
1. Low Quality Media
2. Your Burner Is Dying
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/93406
CD Burner Help - Power Calibration Error….
Hi and welcome to the forum, a quick search found this piece of advice: POWER CALIBRATION ERRORS ARE CAUSED MOSTLY BY POOR MEDIA. (CHEAP BRANDED CD’S IE. PROMEDIA) - TRY USING A DIFFERENT BRAND (COMPUSA, TDK’S, MEMOREX, SONY) ARE THE BEST BET; DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON CHEAP DISKS - YOULL JUST WASTE THEM. If everything is to no avail, then maybe a firmware upgrade will do the trick.
http://www.gidforums.com/t-904.html
What is Power Calibration error?
A power calibration error is caused by the inability of a DVD-RW drive to use a DVD-R or DVD-RW disk.
http://www.pioneeraus.com.au/computer/faqs/faq_22.html
Și dacă astea nu ajung, probabil cel mai bun document în materie de ars plastice dă explicația tehnică:
The optical power output range of the laser in a low-speed CD-R is between 4 and 8 milliwatts. (By comparison, the read laser runs at about 0.5mW.) High-speed recorders and CD-RW devices use a greater range, up to about 40mW for 48X CD-R. At the top end of the scale are DVD-R recorders, which output around 100mW for 4x recording and 200mW for 16X recording. CD-R and CD-RW discs have a section outside the standard recording area called the Power Calibration Area (PCA) that is used to adjust the laser for the brand of media you’re using and the speed at which you’re recording.
Power calibration errors indicate that the drive is having trouble calibrating the power setting. The most common cause is incompatibility with the media you’re using—if you just switched to a new brand or batch of media, this is a likely culprit—but it can also be caused by a dirty lens or a dying recorder.
If you’re seeing “power calibration area full”, it means the recorder ran out of space in the PCA area. There are 99 regions in the PCA area. After 99 attempts to calibrate the power level, there won’t be any places left, and the recorder will report an error.
Try a few different kinds of media to see if the problem is an incompatibility between your recorder and the discs you’re using. If that doesn’t make a difference, there are a couple of things you can do to mitigate the problem. First, you can try recording at a slower speed. The recorder will use a different “write strategy”, which usually means a lower power level. Second, if you’re storing the discs in a cold place, you may want to try heating them up to slightly above room temperature (placing them near a heating vent works). One user found that this helped.
If all else fails, and the drive is still in warranty, you should have the drive checked by a repair facility. If it’s out of warranty, or there’s no easy way to have it checked out, you can try cleaning it. See section (3-30).
Some versions of the firmware for the Philips CDD2000 (and HP 4020i) will report a power calibration error if you try to do a 1x write after a 4x read.
It’s also good to verify, if your CD recorder is an internal unit, that your power supply has enough capacity to run everything. Recent PCs systems should have a 300W or better power supply.
One user found that his problems went away when he created an image file with Easy CD Creator, quit out of the program, restarted it, and then recorded from the image at a moderate speed. (Doesn’t make much sense, but if it works, use it.)