I am happy to report that today I installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and the DVD-ROM is now working! Seems that the new kernel has the driver built-in.
See dmesg logs:
Code:
[ 66.269326] usb 4-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using xhci-hcd
[ 66.395889] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=13fd, idProduct=0840, bcdDevice= 1.14
[ 66.395898] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 66.395903] usb 4-1: Product: External
[ 66.395906] usb 4-1: Manufacturer: Generic
[ 66.395909] usb 4-1: SerialNumber: 303130313830323832383432
[ 67.628683] usb-storage 4-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 67.628938] scsi host0: usb-storage 4-1:1.0
[ 67.629130] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 68.645219] scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM PLDS DVD+-RW DS-8A5SH XD13 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 68.645576] scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
[ 68.665452] sr 0:0:0:0: Power-on or device reset occurred
[ 68.670638] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/8x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 68.670648] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 68.673126] sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
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