Optical Drive on Latitude D830 shows in tray as Removable Device?

I received my D830 yesterday with Vista Basic. So, planning to do a clean XP Pro install, I decided to turn on the system, check to make sure all the hardware was functioning properly out-of-the-box, and then format. Before I formatted, though, I noticed one of the little usb-device-connected icons in the system tray. I doubled clicked it, curious to see which mystery peripheral I was using. In the dialogue box, the information for my optical drive (a CD-R/DVD combo drive) showed up. I was baffled.

Fast forward to 2.5 hours later after grappling with a few SATA drivers - XP is installed. After installing all the drivers, the usb-device-connected icon is still there!

Does anyone have any experience with this issue? I'm very confused. As far as I know, optical drives do not require any sort of driver, so why would this show up as a removable device? I suppose as long as the drive is functioning properly, things could be worse, but I would really like to get that notification icon off the tray, and maybe get my system to recognize the optical drive as a permanent part of the hardware!

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

 

I don't have the D830 but normally the optical drive is detected as you see.

 

It's modular, I believe.. Also hot-swappable, if what you see is correct..

 

So having the icon in my tray to show that my "removable device" is working is a normal thing for an optical drive? I have not seen this before on any other notebook/desktop system.

 

As sesshomaru said, every device inserted into the bay is hot-swappable. You just safely remove the optical drive, physically eject it (note the push-out habdle at the bottom-right side of the drive?) and pop in your other modular devices - extra 6-cell battery, floppy drive, etc.