My CD/DVD drive automatically ejects every disc I put in.

Hi!
I have an Mac Book 15" - Late 2011 / OX 10.9.2 8 Gig RAM AND 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 Processor.My CD/DVD drive automatically ejects every disc I put in immediately. I can't figure out why it's doing this as till December 2013 it was doing fine? I had to reinstall OX and Maverics as my Laptop was lost and recovered and I had actioned erase all data.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

Check this FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/cdrfailure.html
Also check this article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
If you suspect it could be the latter, you may just have to replace the optical drive, or add an external one that supports Mac OS X utility booting, and not use possible rootkit CDs again.
* Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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