Somewhere in late 2013 or early 2014 i bought my first CD-ROM drive, it as for my first ever PC - a Toshiba T2110 laptop
It's a PCMCIA unit, which seemed to be the common standard for laptops before the advent of USB. it works "out of the box" under windows 95 but DOS users will need to load the drivers for it.
It was only in mid-late 2022 that i had finally found the drivers that get this working under DOS
https://archive.org/details/exp-pcmcia-dvd-cd-driver

Wishing to help others who might also have such a mystery drive, i posted a little demo of it to my YT channel
https://youtu.be/ZT0n-_CifkU

The reason this was difficult to find drivers for it is because there isn't any name on the driver itself, just the following numbers:
9510102-48
CDA271129448
QA-60629
Made in Taiwan 3872B687