Odd sound from Superdrive

Recently, the superdrive on my G5 Quad core started making an odd sound - with no disk present, and for no reason at all, it would make a whirring/clicking sound, like it was looking to read a disk. It does this randomly, sometimes every few minutes, sometimes not for hours. It will cycle once or twice, then stop. Regular read/write performance seems unaffected. Any thoughts/solutions? Thanks - Dave

Mine does the same thing. It happens about every 5 to 6 minutes, it will make a little click or spinup check like it's checking to see if there's a disk in the drive.
I have no problem burning disks/dvd's etc, but this just started happening after I upgraded to 10.4.8.
It's sorta irritating to hear and I worry that it's causing unnessesary wear and tear on my drive.
Unless there's some way to figure out what is happening, I'm going to reformat my machine to see if it goes away.
The only other new CD rom app I've installed is DVD2ONEX.
Do you have this app installed?

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