Why won't my USB Super Drive play anything?

My USB Super Drive won't play anything. All I get is a "supported disc not available" message no matter what I put in. Why?

nobody here would know as you provided no real details for us to go on...

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I am working between two Macs in my house: the upstairs one is MAC OSX 10.6.8, and the downstairs one (an eMac) is MAC OSX 10.5.8 -- if that matters.
I need to transfer files from the downstairs computer to the upstairs one.
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Niel:
Thanks for the reply!
The file on the eMac that I'm trying to transfer onto the flash drive is far less than 4GB.
So I went onto the eMac's Disk Utilities and reformatted the flash drive as Mac Extended: still no dice. Even with the contents of the flash drive erased, any attempt to copy files onto it resulted in the same "not enough disk space" message.
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I've got problem with my USB super drive...
I bought this item thru online store...
First, I tried to burn CD...but a problem occured in the middle of the burning process...error: cannot read/copy the files to the CD...
Then, my CD got stuck inside my USB super drive...silently inside it...
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