DVD drive appearing like a USB stick

Hi All,
Something slightly weird I noticed since I reinstalled windows 7... my DVD drive now seems to appear on the Task bar tray icons list with an icon saying 'safely remove hardware' as if I'd put a USB stick into one of the ports.
When I right click on that it says Eject HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT33N...
Never seen this before. Anyone know what's going on...?
Many Thanks

Mine does that. It probably didn't show up previously because Power Manager was powering off the drive after a while of inactivity.
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