How do I disable my CD/DVD drive?

I'd like to disable my CD/DVD drive so that it doesn't spin up every time I select Save in my Kate editor, or select a file-accessing action in other applications. The spinning up just delays what I'm doing, and I'm not even using the DVD drive. I want to leave the CD in the drive, and not have it spin up. I found a website that said a udev rule will definitely disable the drive. So far, I've tried the following 2 rules (separately), but neither of them disable the DVD drive (it still spins up - even when not mounted):

ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVRTD11RS_SAC1009942", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"

KERNEL=="sr0",ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1", RUN+="/bin/touch /home/peter/udev-rule-ran"

The RUN+ in the second instance, creates my test file "udev-rule-ran", so this tells me that my rule file is being executed, and that the rule line is being run. ## My Question: Could you tell me what I should be doing to definitely disable the darned DVD drive? I also want to be able to enable the drive again on the occasions that I need it. ## Supplementary Details: I'm trying very hard to write a udev rule to disable my CD/DVD drive. I've tried various non-udev methods to disable it but none of them work. There is no loaded module¹⁾ for the drive that I can unload, so I can't use that method to disable the drive. *¹⁾ So I think the driver must be compiled into the kernel.*