Oh OK, that's good. The Epson search results give a list of models but they don't give much information without actually going to every page and there are quite a few models, so all the ones I looked at were in the 2010+ range.
Obviously because of that it has the appropriate interfaces for older systems.
Regarding Drive compatibility, My understanding is that the limiting factor is the interface (PATA in this case) and system support for ATAPI. As long as that checks out, the drive should work fine with proper drivers. Personally I've not had any problems using OAKCDROM.SYS for all the PATA CD-ROM drives I own (as long as the system has an IDE Host Controller, of course!). Quite useful for transferring data to older non-USB systems with DVD-RWs. I seem to r emember reading KB articles discussing support issues with some of the included generic drivers on various Windows Boot diskettes, though.