wodim does that for me too. Try this (substitute your drive name for sr0)
wodim dev=/dev/sr0 -checkdrive
If it works, you can set cdrom= /dev/sr0 in /etc/wodim.conf
wodim does that for me too. Try this (substitute your drive name for sr0)
wodim dev=/dev/sr0 -checkdrive
If it works, you can set cdrom= /dev/sr0 in /etc/wodim.conf