This is definitely not a cdrecord bug! What you did was to call cdrecord with insufficient privileges. Later you did ignore both: the error message from cdrecord and the man page that tells you that you need to run cdrecord with root privileges.
BTW: You are not using cdrecord but a bastardized version from Debian that has many bugs that have been introduced by Debian. Better compile yourself and run the original ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily