DVD won't` eject

In suse 9.2 recently updated I now can not open the DVDRW drive either manually or with eject. I removed the device from yast rebooted and reinstalled still the light remains on as though there were a disk inside. Also though yast found the device which is on hdc the software apparently sees it as hdd? I also get some flaky error on boot about not having a 80 pin cable on the second ide. I installed 9.2 using this drive now it does not work. I will check the physical connections but I am puzzled. I have the 100mb output of hardware info. What should I look for? -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/