Super drive on my Dual 800 g4 Quicksilver

I trying to boot from the recovery disc that came with my Mac, However when I hold down the C key to boot the drive will spin up then stops. never getting to the disc so I can reinstall. So I figured the drive was bad( it is over 8 yr's old ). Install the new drive and it does the same thing. So I tried the 10.1 disc and the os 9.2.1 cd again the same thing.
Next I removed the HD from the computer and connected the DVD drive to the HD bus thinking the bus for thr DVD drive might be bad or the cable is bad. Agin the same thing.
Any ideas?
PS. The Hard is new the old one crapped out that why I need to reinstall from scratch.
Thanks

Is the DVD drive jumpered to "master"?

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