Alright mate, thanks for your input.
I promise thats last OT word...
I generally use dvd-drive for audio cd ripping (I love to listen to the music but I travel a lot- unfortunately my laptops dvd-bluray-xray-and whatever more formats it supports-drive is too slow and lacks audio data cache), sometimes for the games that need dvd to play (it's much easier then all that deamon tools stuff) but mostly to be able to reinstall my OS, which I'm right about to execute.

Thanks.