When I installed Debian on my new Asus U31SD, my LG DVD Drive plugged in and worked perfectly for reading discs. My file manager, PCManFM, recognized and mounted the drive just fine.
However, I did have a little bit of confusion compared to my older systems when trying to burn with this drive. At first I wasn’t sure where the drive was being mounted. My file manager says that the drives’ location is burn:/// in the location bar for a blank DVD. Already burned discs show up as /media/cdrom0 as usual. Also, fstab listed the mounting point different from
mount | tail -1
fstab listed the drive as /dev/scd0 but
mount | tail -1
said it was at /dev/sr0.
For example, when trying to burn a standard .iso disc image, the program dvd+rw-format didn’t want to work with /dev/sr0 but the following command did:
growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso
where
-Z /dev/sr0
tells growisofs to burn an initial session to the DVD which is located at /dev/sr0, in my case.
=debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso
is the location of the disc image so obviously I was in the same directory when I used this command.