Optical Disk Drive Error—What Is It?

[mrlynn]

A friend whose Mac Mini has an internal optical drive writes:

I just tried to burn my 2016 files to a DVD-RW disc, which I have successfully done in previous years, but this time I get a message that the disc won't burn because "communication between the computer and the disc drive failed." Error code 0x80020022.

Is this a solvable problem, short of replacing the drive?

/Mr Lynn