[grober]

Good Linux to all.
I have a burner device:
LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-411S and with my Slack 10.0 but also with
the other distros I can't burn.
At the boot and with 'dmesg' I can see the device but not mount.
My question is:
Is this device compatible with Linux?
Thank-you to all and sorry for my bad language.

grober

[egorgry]

I have almost the same drive it's the 8x burner LDW-811s and it works with Debian/Sid. you may need dvdrtools or something, I forget. I'll try to be more help after I get more time to think.

[danleff]

[grober]

Tank you for the answers
but my fear is that really the hardware isn't compatible
with Linux because in the researchs with Google & co. I didn't
find information about my LDW-411S. Others similars, but not
the same.
Tanks to danleff also but the problems that you listed I solved
some time ago ;-)
I have 2 Slacks 10.0: one with the 2.6.7 linux kernel and the
other with two kernels, 2.4.26 and 2.6.8.1. I don't use scsi
emulation (but I made some test) because I know that Cdrecord-2.1
not need it.
At this point I want test this drive in a PC with Windows and in
case that it work I can sale it for buy another.
tank you again

grober

[danleff]

I think that you are on the right track, depending on the distro. I have found various results, depending on the kernel that I am using.

For the 2.4 series, the drive is detected as a scsi device, which has nothing to do with the fact that it is a ide or actual scsi device. Yes, the new versions of cdrecord are supposed to work, but, as I noted, not always. I still had to pass the ide-scsi option to the kernel on boot.

It also depends on the burning software that you use. what burning software and version do you use? If K3b, take a cruise over to the forums there and you will see some posts on this subject.