My remote disc drive stopped taking discs - is there a setting I changed by mistake?

I have a Mac Mini with a remote DVD/CD drive plugged into the USB which always worked fine, but overnight, stopped working. I have just exchanged my remote disc drive for a brand new one out of the box, so I know that there is no hardware problem with the drive. On my finder, the remote disc shows up, but when I insert a disc, it doesn't draw it into the drive, and won't accept it if I force it in. I'm not aware of any change of my settings, but my computer is used by my whole family, and it's possible that some function key was pressed or menu item selected accidentally. Is there anything I can try?

Bus powered drives are not very reliable, rhe USB bus can't supply enough power really.
reset FW bus, same goes for USB reset...
Reset the Firewire bus
If your Firewire or USB isn't recognizing any device. A solution which has worked for some whose hard drive became invisible in 10.4 was simply to follow these four steps to reset the Firewire/USB bus:
1. Shut the machine down.
2. UNPLUG the power lead to the computer and any firewire/USB drive or devices.
3. leave it for 10 minutes.
4. Connect back up and reboot.
http://www.macmaps.com/firewirebug2.html

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