Welp, it appears the dvd player is not going to be usable, at least not on the mb sata connector. I had tested for that by booting from it, and it worked fine. However today when I attempted to copy the contents of a photo cd to the hdd, it crashed both Fedora and XP. After disconnecting it I was able to copy the cd no problem from another, usb-attached DVD writer.
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"Giant pig hot air balloon crashes after tangling with a cowboy-shaped one"
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