My G4 Mini no longer sees the optical drive....?

Hello,
Thanks for looking. I have a Mini that no longer sees any optical drive I install. It's an Apple OEM superdrive that the system profiler does not see, nor will any disc mount. I've tried and Apple OEM combo drive too. I'vre reset the PMU and done a "pram" reset too. External DVD-R drive works.. but nothing internally.
Thanks for any help.
Dave

DaddyPaycheck, thankyou for the reply. It appears there might be some physical damage which worries me. But what perplexis me is that the drive receives power... it takes the disk (won't eject it.. even on restart, but it takes the disc), and when I boot into open firmware, I get "unable to eject the drive volume"... or something like that... The point being that it appears to believe that there is a drive, but doesn't know what to do with it.
That being said...it still won't recognize in the ATA of the system profiler.
Dave

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