Macbook superdrive not working...

my Macbook superdrive has stopped working since 2 days..It won't pull discs inside it..When i use "drutil eject" in terminal then it pulls it in makes sum spinning noise and spits out in 3 seconds..i've tried cleaning the lens with a credit card n cloth n i've even tried resetting PRAM but of no help....i dunno if i've done any of the procedures incorrectly but pls sum1 help me..!!!

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