DVD drive crashes mac

I recently fitted a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D in my 1.25 MDD G4 and I can't get it to work.
When mac is started up the bottom tray opens (112D) then when i put a blank dvd in, it spins loudly, nothing mounts and the cursor is stuck on the spinning wheel thing. I can move the cursor but can't click on anything. Force quitting and trying to open the tray doesn't do anything and I have to press the power button to restart. When there's no disc in the drive Toast 7 recognises it and it shows up in system profile.
The original drive is in the top bay (HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B) and this works ok for burning cds but I need the dvd burner to copy a large design job asap!
Any ideas/info would be appreciated, thanks.
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D:
Manufacturer: PIONEER
Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D
Revision: 1.09
Drive Type: CD-RW/DVD-RW
Disc Burning: Vendor Supported
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 1
Socket Type: Internal

With two optical drives, one needs to be jumpered master, the other jumpered as slave.
In OS 10.3.9, you need Patchburn to get full support of the burner.
If all else fails, try with only the DVR-112 connected (jumpered as master).

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