Hi, I'm experiencing this problem from quite a long time. But I don't know why.
I have a LG DVD Writer. It supports writing and reading DVD-R DVD+R DVD-RW DVD+RW, all CDs and some other DVD flavors I don't remember.
I tried a Fedora boot DVD at boot, it worked. But inside arch (it was the same problem with fedora), it won't work.
I don't think this needs any special driver because previously I'd never configured a special driver for that.
CD's work fine though. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com