Mac unable to read Sims Seasons DVD

Hey everyone.
Today, I got the Sims Seasons.
When I insert the disc into the drive, my mac tries to read it. After that, it reads it again, and again, and then ejects the cd by itself. I tried it with another cd and it reads it fine.I tried out the Sims cd on my macbook,it reads it without any problems as well. What can I do?

If it is new, it may just have a light film left over on the surface from the manufacturing process that is keeping your iMac's drive from seeing it.
Try gently cleaning it, as per > www.ghpl.org/_files/DVD_clean_2011.pdf and then try it again.

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