Optical Drives are missing after installation

Today I installed Leopard (10.5.1) onto a freshly erased drive (still have my Tiger volume). I decided to get a fresh start and did an install that only brought over my network settings. Unfortunately both of my optical drives no longer work. Won't mount CDs or DVDs nor can I open or close the drives from the menu bar because the icon reads,"No Drives" when I click on it.
The system profiler does see them and I gathered the following information. The combo drive is the one that came with my G4 which is a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R1312. The super drive is a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D.
Do I need to download new files/drivers or pull them from my volume that has Tiger installed? In either event, where do I put them once I get them? Or will I find an installer that knows what to do? Thanks.

Smokerz wrote:
Pioneer 106 is an older optical drive. It was problematic anyway. You could try to flash the drives firmware.
http://pioneerdvd.rpc1.org/#PIONEERDVRIDE
I would add a cautionary note that the "flashing" may not work with Leopard !!!
I have some old drives that now work with Leopard but the flash process required Winders!
Be careful - it's dangerous out there

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