Imac optical drive will not allow disc insertion. (blocked)

Hello out there.
I have a 2009 27" imac (intel) with an optiarc disc drive. After installing an update a year or so ago, the disc drive started making cycling type noises at startup, and would occasionally not allow insertion of a disc. Then it would accept a disc only rarely, and recently not at all. The disc will only go in about a third of the way, then is physically blocked.
I want to run the Apple hardware test on my startup disc, but that's obviously a problem since I can't insert it.
If anyone can offer guidence, it would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, jakeonbell

It may be broken or you might just need to do a PRAM reset 2-3 times. Instructions for the reset are in Intel iMac SMC and PRAM resets

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