CD ROM/DVD drive spins up when no CD is inserted

A few times a day my CD-ROM drive will spin up even though there is no disc in the drive. I can hear it and feel the vibration through the case.
At first I thought it might be the fan, but it is definitely the same sound and feeling the drive makes when a DVD first goes in, or when I'm burning a CD.
It doesn't seem to be software related -- it's happened where there are no programs running that ever access the CD-ROM (e.g., iTunes is almost never running).
Any idea why this is happening? Or how to stop it?

Two guesses: either you're hitting the eject key by accident, or there's dust or something in there that makes the drive think a disc is loaded.

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