SCSI CD Burner on Beige G3 with OS 8.6

I've been using a LaCie 4x CD burner with my beige G3 Power PC. It died a few weeks ago and I found some SCSI LaCie 4x4x16 drives on eBay. But they don't really work right. Only 1 or 2 sessions of multi-session disks mount, and the computer does not see a CD burner at all when I try to burn.
A quick search for drivers was not fruitful (I have not put a lot of effort into it yet). If I can't find a driver, what can I do? Can I upgrade the OS on this Mac?

I can't expertly address the first part of your question. My first suspicion would be of the drives. They are pretty old and in the optical drive world 4 years is about time for a drive to start showing its age. On the other hand they are third party drives so who knows what support they need. Since you had a LaCie burner before I would imagine the drivers would be similar and still on your computer. Exactly what model drives are they? Maybe somebody here can point you in the direction of drivers or may have some.
How much RAM does your beige have? 8.6 was the top of the OS8 line, but you could do OS9 or even OSX depending upon the computer configuration, especially RAM. Going to OS9 would not be unreasonable on a beige but it would require purchasing a set of (used) full retail installer discs. To comfortably run OSX on a beige requires pretty substantial hardware upgrades.

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