External dvd drive won't work w/ iMac (10.5.8)

Just bought a new LaCie dvd rw w/ lightscribe.  When I plug it into my iMac, the system profiler "sees" it through the firewire connection, but any disk I put into it won't mount.  I plugged it in to my daughters PC & it was instantly recognized & disks were readable.  Do I need a special driver or patch?  I downloaded everything on the LaCie website w/ no luck.  Thanks!

What OS version are you on? Normally you don't need anything (especially not a driver), but I remember from 10.5 that I had to download the disc recording support:
http://www.lacie.com/us/support/support_manifest.htm?id=10340
even though laCie insisted I didn't need it and that it was for earlier OS's, I downloaded and installed it and it worked in 10.5 (probably not in 10.6, most likely not in 10.7).
Also, depending on the options you have checked for showing/not showing CD/DVD on desktop, you may not see it - check Finder Preferences and iTunes as well.

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