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Thanks very much, François - you solved my fundamental problem. It's half working. The Mac can see it and they're talking to each other. It ejected a disc quite comfortably when I rebooted and held down the mouse button. It's mounted a disc once. But it isn't reading it. And now I can't get it...

After a couple of reboots it mounted it! But it's not happy for some reason...

ID=0 (hard drive); ID=1 IDVD) but "no mountable media inserted". I'm not sure where the eject is now to force it out.

So I've done that - and there's *some* progress. It now appears in System Profiler. But there's a DVD inside it - it happily swallowed it and I can see that the drive has power - but it hasn't mounted it.

Actually I was looking at the wrong end. Jumper here, I think, but I don't know how to interpret.

Thanks François. The optical drive adapter (green) doesn't seem to have a jumper but the one connect to the SSD hard drive (red) does. Any suggestions? Should I swap them round?

Ah, it could be. I think master/slave needs to be reversed? It doesn't seem to be in System Profiler.

It's among the compatible drives in this iFixit list: https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/302725/What+optical+drives+from+other+Mac+devices+can+be+used+in+replacement#answer302892

I've installed a Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7640A drive inside a G4 Cube (using a 3D-printed bracket). I didn't give much thought to drivers when I bought the thing. Neither Tiger or Leopard can recognise it. And I can't find any Apple drivers online. It's one of these, so was running on later Intel...