Disk Utility not recognising Pioneer DVR-111D

I retrofitted this drive into my G4. I'm new to iDVD but have problems.
iDVD does not recognise this drive and keeps opening the original (CD only burning) drive and I can see no way to get it to open the Pioneer drive
iMovie was quite happy to save my movie project to a DVD using this drive.
Disk Utility sees both drives but when I put in a new DVD disc (I've tried several) it doesn't even spin the drive up and so I can't burn a disk image saved by iDVD.
Any suggestions? Thanks
Message was edited by: Roger Sinden

Do you have the MDD?
Did you use Cable Select for both? I assume you have both optical drives on same IDE bus.
End position needs to be master jumper and the middle needs to use slave jumper setting. or both need to use CS,

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