UltraBay II CD-ROM Drive

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UltraBay II CD-ROM Drive

This is an optical drive that slides into an UltraBay II.

Features

  • Read/Write capabilities:
    • CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW (24x or 20x read speed)
  • Tray-loader
  • Activity LED

Part numbers

Sanyo CRD-S372BDB

  • 02K0515, 02K0513

unknown 20x drive

  • 05K9012

Firmware

A bootable firmware update was released back in 2004 for these optical drives, it can be downloaded here. It supports and updates the CRD-S372B (to 1.25), CRD-S372V (to 1.25), CRN-8241B (to 1.30/1.16), CRN-8241U (to 2.28), and the CRN-8245B (to 1.16) drives.

Linux support

If connected at boot time, the drive is normally /dev/sr0.

Models supporting this accessory