Matsushita DVD-Rom SR-8587-C won’t read!

Hello there,
I am working on a Gateway G6-350 PC from the early 90’s and it has a Matsushita SR-8587-C OEM DVD-ROM that powers up trys to seek but can’t read the disk. In My Computer if I select D: drive it says D:\ is not accessible The Device is not ready!In the Device Device Manager it shows up correct under CDROM and says it is working correctly. The Gateway site says that it uses a standard Windows driver and it seems that it installs it because it identifies the device correctly. Is this thing hosed? It’s Win 98 and a P2 CPU the motherboard is an Intel all in one deal! If any of you have any ideas I would appreciate the help.

Thanks,
Pingofdeath