CD burner woes

[Drew Van Zandt]

Hey all...
   I've been trying to figure this out with a lot of help from Google, but
I'm still not getting any traction on the problem and would like a push to
keep me from spinning my wheels...

I used to be able to burn CD's on this laptop, now I can't.  Here's the info
that's probably most relevant:

1) I can read CD's just fine.
2) uname -a returns:
Linux pi 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00:12:50 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
and the system is Debian Etch

3) wodim dev=help returns:

Supported SCSI transports for this platform:

Transport name:         sg
Transport descr.:       Generic transport independent SCSI
Transp. layer ind.:
Target specifier:       bus,target,lun
Target example:         1,2,0
SCSI Bus scanning:      supported
Open via UNIX device:   not supported   *** DING DING DING looks
suspiciously like my issue. ***

Transport name:         ATA
Transport descr.:       ATA Packet specific SCSI transport
Transp. layer ind.:     ATAPI:
Target specifier:       bus,target,lun
Target example:         ATAPI:1,2,0
SCSI Bus scanning:      supported
Open via UNIX device:   not supported

Transport name:         ATA
Transport descr.:       ATA Packet specific SCSI transport using sg
interface
Transp. layer ind.:     ATA:
Target specifier:       bus,target,lun
Target example:         1,2,0
SCSI Bus scanning:      supported
Open via UNIX device:   not supported

pi:/etc/rc2.d#

Can anyone give me a push-start?

--DTVZ
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