DVD drive makes noise whenever my macbook is moved???

6 months without any problem then suddendly any time I move my MB there is a noise (like an eject noise) comming from my dvd drive. I don't have any CD or DVD in the drive.
Any idea? Is my dvd drive going bad?
Thanks

Are you sure it isn't the hard drive's sudden motion detector temporarily parking the HD heads?

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