DVD drive resets occasionally

Does anyone have any idea why the DVD drive on our MacBook Pro (MacBookPro2,1) make the 'reset' sound every so often? You know - the sound that you hear when you reboot the Mac or run Dsk Utility.
I can't see anything that could be causing it and nothing appears in the Console.log file at the time.
I am having other problems with the Mac (my 2TB external USB drive seems to be failing after some hours of use ... but not if I plug it into our iMac 20") so suspect these issues may be linked.
I've tested RAM (this failed once but I removed, and replaced it and have tested it at least ten times since and it's passed every test).
I've tested the hard disc (hangs after a while on MacBook Pro but passes ok on the iMac).
Any thoughts anyone?

I would first run disk utility and repair permissions. Then I would delete the plist file. It's here:
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.DVDplayer.plist
Then restart DVD player and see if it works like it should.
If it's still acting up I would try playing the dvd with VLC, it's free and you can get it here:
https://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10210434

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