[newbie] USB CD Burner

[Jon]

Hi,   I have a USB CD Burner (Kodak CD-R/RW) but I haven't been able to get it to burn and as I understand it Linux (Mandrake 8.1) isn't capable of directly talking to such burners it can only talk to SCSI/IDE burners? Is that correct? However I think I read somewhere that you can fool Linux so that it appears to be a SCSI burner? Is that correct, has someone done it and how have they done it? Thanks.   Jon.