kernel 2.6.2 / sarge / cdrecord fails

[hanasaki]

cdrecord is failing  with the below errors:  could someone help with this?

uname output:
Linux 2.6.2 #1 SMP Mon Feb 16 11:18:56 CST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

scanbus output:
scsibus0:
         0,0,0     0) '   ' 'COMBO-52X16 ' '1.83' Removable CD-ROM

Burning worked a few weeks ago and it is a new cdrwdrive.  The same
results occur for the many disks tried (CD-R and CDRW).  I do not
remember if it was working on kernel 2.6.1 or 2.6.2 in the past.  I have
done several apt-get upgrades since then also.  Mounting a cd for read
works fine.  I have tried cdrecord with ide-scsi mapping and without
(using cdrecord's ATAPI)

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a25 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of
cdrecord
       and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
       Please send bug reports and support requests to
<cdrtools at packages.debian.org>.
       The original author should not be bothered with problems of this
version.

Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : '        '
Identifikation : 'COMBO-52X16     '
Revision       : '1.83'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.30
cdrecord.mmap: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3A 01 00 00
Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x01 (medium not present - tray closed) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.004s timeout 40s
cdrecord.mmap: No disk / Wrong disk!