you can get around this by adding the scsi ide module and either changing the ownership of the drive or making cdrecord suid root--->as root:
modprobe ide-scsi
chmod u+s /usr/bin/cdrecord---->assumes cdrecord is in /usr/bin
or
chown username:users /dev/hdx where x=drive and username is your username
should be able to also just add your username in /etc/group to the cdrom line, but occasionally it isnt enough to access the drive as a regular user
