Dvd player suddenly no longer recognized

hi,
i have a lacie firewire dvd drive, which has worked fine up till now. suddenly it's not being recognized. this happened after i aborted the one step dvd procedure in iDvd, and now i get a warning from idvd "no supported burner available...". loading a dvd film into the drive doesn't start up dvd player either.
however, the video camera, which is connected to the macbook duo 1.8Ghz via the dvd drive shows up fine, so it's not an issue with the cables or similar.
i tried installing the lastest profile from lacie (feb 2008), but it hasn't helped.
anyone have any good ideas?
cheers,
stuart

yep. swapped around a couple of cables, too. restarted the computer (all this started yesterday, anyway, so everything's been off and on at least once).
stu

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