What's wrong with my disc drive?

It won't play or burn discs. It always spits them back out at me. If i try to watch a movie i have to keep inserting it over and over again until it takes it, if it takes it and forget backing up anything onto disc. If i finally get a cd in and it tells me it burned if i insert it into another computer it says blank like nothing copied. Is it reparable? can i fix it, and if so how?

How old is the drive?
It sounds like it has given up the ghost, or nearly so.
The slot-loaders are not the most robust of devices, to say the least.  You might run your Apple Hardware Test disc on the machine, but probably a replacement of the optical is in your future.

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