Well, I chased the problem with not being able to dup disks from the 
dvd drive in my iBook to the FireWire LaCie burner to a bug in the YDL 
3.0.1 installer. It seems that there is nothing like /dev/dvd or 
/dev/cdrom after doing a clean install with the 3.0.1 installer. 
Unfortunately, the way I discovered this was by re-installing Linux on 
my desktop because I wanted to change the partitioning scheme.

I understand that the lack of entries in the /dev directories may or 
may not indicate a lack of drivers in the kernel. Beyond that my 
knowledge of the relationship between the stuff in /dev and actual 
drivers is pretty sketchy. With this level of knowledge is it  
reasonable that I should try  to  fix this myself or should I just wait 
for Terra Soft?