Won't recognize CD player

I'm a Kindergarten teacher and I have a 800 Mhz emac that would intermittently not recognize the kids CD's. So I pulled out the superdrive and replaced with CD burners that came out of 2 other emacs I had and put them both in and the emac doesn't recognize either. At first I thought the CD player was bad... but, what are the chances that BOTH burners are bad?
Is their some sort of reset that will get my emac to see the "new" drives? What kind of test is their to test my first SuperDrive? Maybe something is wiggy in the computer causing it not to see drives all the time.

Hello,
I have an eMac too, and that had happened to my ComboDrive. The thing is, its a BIT of a pain in the *** but I opened up the eMac and took the drive out, put it into a box PC and it worked, took it out and popped it into the eMac and it worked perfectly again. Try it. Its better than buying an external optical drive, or an internal drive. =) Hope this helps.
Regards,
Your Fellow eMac User,
-Matthew Knice

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