LITE-ON compatibility

This is a discussion about LITE-ON compatibility in the Linux Hardware category; 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.

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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

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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.

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After a quick google search, folks have been able to use this drive in linux.
 
What burning software have you tried?
 
I can think of a couple of issues. What linux kernel is in your distros? The 2.4 or 2.6 kernel versions?
 
Try this also, at root terminal user, type in;
 
cdrecord -scanbus (hit the enter key)
 
and what output do you get? Something like;
 
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright :copyright: 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
 
 
0,0,0 0) name of burner
 
Or something like that?
 
If using a 2.4 series kernel you may need to pass the scsi argument to the kernel at boot. Let us also know what distro that you tried this on, as well as the kernel series.
 

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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

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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.