Found out the problem. The drive was disconnected while live and reconnected. I was securing the connection. But then I still had to symlink /dev/sr0 to /dev/pg0 for -scanbus to work.
cdrecord works well in Linux. Just had a problem with it, however, recognizing the ide cdrom on my system: debian wheezy i386 eserver xseries 345. The laptop ide drive is configured as /dev/sr1 in...