Installed a DVD drive in a G4 - drivers needed?

It doesn't seem to work. Full story below, branched from another thread. New problem, new thread, was my understanding of the idea.
I bought and (physically) installed a Pioneer 115 DVD drive, and tried the black retail Tiger disc. Nothing. Which is an improvement (the old CD drive would spit it out after 20 seconds).
Tried restarting holding 'c', then holding 'option' - again nothing. It just goes through to the user sign-in dialog then onto normal desktop.
Am I being completely dense here, or isn't there meant to be some sort of recognition that I've put a disc in?
Do I need to do some installation of the drivers?
Could the problem be because I bought the machine from a department in my university, and there might still be some network settings on it preventing my progress? Do I have to do something in account settings?

Hi-
The drive should be recognized and functional as a reader.
No drivers are necessary.
For full burning support, Patchburn is needed.
There is a Panther version and a Tiger version:
http://www.patchburn.de/
Does the drive show up in the System Profiler/Hardware/ATA, and also in System Profiler/Hardware/Disc Burning?

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