Sony DRU500A vs AX differences - What color is YOUR PCB?

[arklab]

After having (very unique and rare) IDE lockup problems with the origional DRU500A for Sony (I tried two drives) in one of my PCs (Chaintech 7KDD Dual AMD and only with WinXP), I had thought to switch to an external version to simply avoid the issue.

Well the only thing harder has been finding an external in stock, but I did run across the newer AX internal at Circuit City, and I am having better results, although I had thought the two drives were identical save for packaging.

The purpose of this post, however, is that looking at the AX's CPB, I see that it is a turquoise blue color.
Now I can't be sure, but I think that this is different from what I had seen on the original 500A's.
(You can get a good peak at the PCB by looking at the back of the drive neer the conectors for power and IDE cables.)

If you have a DRU500A, please take a look at the color of your PCB, and post a reply.

A different PCB might indicate that other PHYSICAL differences are present in the newer AX series drives, in spite of it being reported as the 500A in Nero and Windows.

Thanks

[glock20rocks]

*ALL* I could find were the stupid externals. I did want a DRU-500AX, since it's dual format, but I don't have USB2.0 yet. And since there still seems to be some "issues" with the drive, I just got a different burner (IndiDVD, if anyone cares).