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Description of problem:
Trying to write an ISO image to an ATAPI writer, cdrecord fails to do
so claiming that the writer supports no writing modes:

[sun@nausicaa ~/temp/SMLA :( (1) 19]$ cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -tao
-dummy foo.iso  
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a38-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004
Jörg Schilling
[snipped]
scsidev: '/dev/hdc'
devname: '/dev/hdc'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c   1
.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : '_NEC    '
Identifikation : 'DVD_RW ND-2500A '   
Revision       : '1.06'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes:
cdrecord: Drive does not support TAO recording.
cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive.

The same occurs when passing "-dao" to cdrecord ("cdrecord: Drive does
not support SAO recording."). The drive has worked fine in this machine.
Writing to a SCSI-CDR in the same machine works fine with the same
cdrecord version.
kernel is kernel-2.6.8-1.526

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cdrecord-2.01.0.a37.99-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to write to an ATAPI writer
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Actual Results:  cdrecord claims no supported writing modes

Expected Results:  Writing to media

Additional info: