Disk drive fail

I booted up my iMac this morning with nothing in the disc drive, but it kept making a noise as if it was trying to load a disk. After a few minutes it stopped.
Later, when I tried to load a disc, it would not take it. I tried pushing the disc in with another disc behind it--no such luck. This disc loaded fine last week.
So far I've tried the following approaches to remedy the problem--none with any luck:
-reboot iMac
-repair disk permissions
-turn the computer off, unplug everything, wait 10 seconds, reconnect the power supply, reset the PRAM
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Well, bleating or not, which I don't believe I am. Just pointing out a weak link in a company's product which I have faithfully used and purchased since 1988. I have never had a piece of Apple equipment fail on me this early. That's all. So, all of you Apple fanboys who think that Jobs and Apple with their Chinese produced products can do wrong, well wait until your equipment goes awry after a short time. See how you feel. Jeez I never thought I'd catch so much heat for speaking the truth. Apple is good, but it better be for 2X the price of a comparable pc product. This time it wasn't. I'm not trying to start a war, just pointing out the fact that Apple puts out an inferior product from time to time. Enough said. Bleating done.
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