DVD-RAM problem on Acer 3212 laptop

[Harish Pillay]

Dick -

> I have installed Fedora 11 on my Acer 3212 (3210) laptop.  I am having
> trouble fully accessing the DVD drive. (Matshita UJ-840). I can mount the
> DVD image but it is returned as blank. However, I am able to boot from the
> drive.  I was surprised that I could write to a blank CD but cannot read CDs
> or DVDs which were made with Win XP.  I have been looking for a Linux driver
> for the device but so far no luck.
>
> Can anyone point me in a better direction?

can you grep through dmesg and/or /var/log/messages for references
to the drive?  Perhaps there is a hint there somewhere.

Harish