Because my primary hard drive was failing i had to reinstall the system and took the opportunity to upgrade to edgy. I have the same problem in edgy though. I have the output from 'list_cddrives' and the part from 'lshal' for cd-rom attached.
** Attachment added: "DVD-RW.tar.gz" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5689612/DVD-RW.tar.gz -- Nautilus-cd-burner is unable to blank DVD-RW https://launchpad.net/bugs/53962 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs