Import photos from DVD R

I cannot get my drive in my Power Mac G5 to read DVD+R to import photos to iPhoto. I use DVD-R but this disk is from a friend. Doesn't read the disk at all and not displayed in "source" list. Any ideas?

At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac, then click on More Info, then click on Hardware>Disk Burning & report what it says, like ...
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S222L:
Firmware Revision:    SB02
Interconnect:    ATAPI
Burn Support:    Yes (Unsupported)
Profile Path:    None
Cache:    2048 KB
Reads DVD:    Yes
CD-Write:    -R, -RW
DVD-Write:    -R, -RAM, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD:    Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD:    Yes
Write Strategies:    CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:
Media Type:    DVD-RW
Blank:    Yes
Erasable:    Yes
Overwritable:    Yes
Appendable:    Yes

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Can you see the image files on that DVD disk from the Finder? You may have to copy the DVD contents to your Desktop and then see if you can import into iPhoto.
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