atapi cdrecord under 5.2

having the following problem trying to burn an iso to cd using cdrecord.

Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info    : 'CREATIVE'
Identifikation : 'CD-RW RW1210E   '
Revision       : 'LCS6'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 12 in real TAO mode for single
session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB:  54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0xFFFFFFFF [], Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x00 Qual 0x00 (no additional sense information) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 60s
cdrecord: OPC failed.

scsibus1:
        1,0,0   100) 'LG      ' 'CD-ROM CRD-8400B' '1.04' Removable
CD-ROM
        1,1,0   101) 'CREATIVE' 'CD-RW RW1210E   ' 'LCS6' Removable
CD-ROM
        1,2,0   102) *
        1,3,0   103) *
        1,4,0   104) *

Am running as root to avoid any issues there and cdrecord command is:

cdrecord dev=1,1,0 5.2-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso

>From dmesg:

pass1 at ata1 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
pass1: <CREATIVE CD-RW RW1210E LCS6> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device 
pass1: 16.000MB/s transfers

Having just read the handbook page, I found I could use the burncd for
my ide burner however in the past, I have successfully used the atapicam
stuff with cdrecord.

So the burner does work a treat:

burncd -f /dev/acd1 data 5.2-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso fixate
next writeable LBA 0
writing from file 5.2-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso size 242336 KB
written this track 242336 KB (100%) total 242336 KB
fixating CD, please wait..

but not with cdrecord/atapicam it would appear.

Any thoughts?

ajt.