This is not a real article about that device, more a list of things you can do with it.
Burning you actually need two tools to write CDs and DVDs with this device.
The normal cdrecord is not usable with this burner. Not even for normal CDs.
The patched dvdrecord from the package dvdrtools can be used to create normal CDs. Unfortunately it screws things up when presented with a DVD: it starts to burn, loses track of the data immediately after it started and then finalizes the DVD. Very unhelpful, except if you want to waste a DVD.
The growisofs program from the package dvd+rw-tools can be used for any kind of DVD. If you want to burn a directory on-the-fly this tool is wonderful, just do growisofs -Z /dev/burner directory and it will take care of creating the iso-filesystem on-the-fly while burning it on the DVD. If you want to copy another DVD or burn an image you need to use the rather peculiar syntax growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/burner=imagefile.img. The -dvd-compat option is necessary to instruct the tool to do the correct alignment of the image on the DVD.
I did not test it. But according to the ressources I found on the web, SuSE comes with cdrecord-ProDVD and is able to burn DVDs on this device from the start. Most authors worked with K3B, which seemingly chose the right program and parameters for this drive.
You can just mount the DVD and work with it as if it was a hard disk.