OT: CD drive died! Help please!

[Renegade 13]

OK, I was hoping someone here could help me with a nagging problem I have. Last night, my CD-RW drive just decided to die on me it seems...however there is no obvious reason for it to have done so, and it was working just a couple hours previously. Here's what I did in the time between when I know the drive was working and when it wasn't:

-Removed the CD from the drive, which WAS working (Warcraft 3)
-Began downloading a patch from Blizzard for the Warcraft 3 expansion, the Frozen Throne. Patch version was 1.14.
-Left for a while, my dad was playing a couple simple card games (no possible effect there), and my sister was typing an assignment for university (again, something that's been done dozens of times.)
-Returned, installed the patch.
-Placed Warcraft 3 expansion CD in the drive, nothing happens.

Now, the symptoms go like this:

The drive will open and close just fine, so its power supply is fine. CD enters the drive, the busy light on the drive flashes slowly for a few seconds, then proceeds to flash very rapidly until the CD is eventually removed. However, the CD will not spin up to speed at all, and when I try to do anything requiring a CD, the computer tells me I need to put the CD in the drive.

I've tried several CD's, all of which are working and all of which received the same error.

The CD drive is a Sony CD-RW CRX215E5

I will try updating the drivers for it after I return from school. Any help anyone could supply would be immensely appreciated!