Dvd drives not reading

Our dvd drive on our Power Mac 2x2.66 GHz Dual Core intel.The drive is an Optiarc dvd rw ad-717a: sometimes will not read inserted discs. These discs work ok when tried on our I mac. Other discs work fine. This has occurred with discs that have bee writen in the drive as well as supplied discs.Help would be appreciated.

Not Sure what you exactly mean but if the Mac can't read the CDs it has written then there is a problem with the optical drive itself. If the CD is detected on teh computer but will not play it might be something to do with the dvd player app on your mac. Try to download VLC for you mac and see if it can read content (assuming it is a video or something). Cheers!
-Manuel

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