Installed my new Liteon 411DVD drive last night. (This marketing blurb also tells me the 48X speed of cdwriting which I’ve not been able to find anywhere else).Took me ages as I wanted to move my hard drives around and make the dvd drive the secondary master. In the midst of doing so I managed to remove the settings for the Western Digital WD800JB hard disk from the bios which sets it to be about 500mb instead of 80GB. This was to get around the bios hanging everytime you went into setup or checked to see what disks were available. Details on what I needed were eventually found at Alternative Bios settings.
Today I installed the software for the drive which unfortunately does not include Nero. The scary thing was that the readme said that if you use multisessions and write over 4GB of data on W2k/XP then you can loose the rest of the data. Microsoft have a FIX: Multi-Border DVD with More Than 4 GB of Data Not Readable Past First Border but I’d recommend installing Service Pack 4 which contains this patch.
Flashed the bios of the drive to the latest available firmware but it still looks like the drive isn’t region free.