IMac g3 dvd drive not responding

Hi,
I just installed a 4X dvd drive in my iMac g3 600 mhz. The drive is one that was taken out of an older iMac g3 so it's the matushita drive. I took out the cdrw drive, installed the dvd drive and booted up. Everything booted up fine, but when I put in a disk, it sounded like it is reading it, then it made more of the "reading" noises and after about a minute it spits out the disk. The sytem profiler recognizes the drive, so i'm a little confused on why it isn't reading the disks I put in. If anyone can help I would appreciate it. Thanks.
-Aaron

Are you attempting to read DVD-R and/or DVD+R disks? You may need to change the brand of media that you're using in the other computer(s) burning these disks. Some drives are very temperamental when it comes to reading disks. I bought some of Best Buy's inexpensive Dynex blank DVD media and my B&W G3's Pioneer DVD±RW burner will complete the burn with verification. I can re-insert the disk minutes later and get the same result that you're hearing - spinning up and then down and then up etc. - as it attempts to make heads or tails of the same disk that it burned. If you buy a better brand of media - like Verbatim, you may have better luck. If the iMac's DVD-ROM drive works better with the +R media, then avoid using the -R media (and vice versa).
If you're having this problem with commercially-produced DVDs, then the drive itself may have a hardware problem. I'm assuming that you purchased a used DVD-ROM drive, as opposed to having swapped it from another iMac that you've always owned. Used drives can be a problem, particularly when you don't know how much usage they've had prior to being pulled and sold.

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