I've actually followed this thread closely.. picked up a sony crx145e 
the other day

today, I got it working under linux.. I'm including steps of how I got
mine to work.. seeing how we both have ide cdrw's the steps should be
somewhat similar


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in lilo.conf 
  append="hdd=ide-scsi"
  where hdd was my ide cdrw
  (i created a new label which was basically my default linux boot up 
  with this extra line appended to it)

rebooted

in fstab
  copied cdrom line
  and replaced `cdrom' with `cdrw'
  left everything else the same

in /dev
  symlinked scd0 to `cdrw' (it was cdrom2, but that was annoying)

loaded up ide-scsi
  insmod ide-scsi
  lsmod ide-scsi to verify

run cdrecord -scanbus to make sure everything is cool
  you should get some `comforting' output

just some syntax of the top of the man page to make a quick iso
  mkisofs -r -o cd_image stuff/

loopback to check out image
  mount -t iso9660 -o loop cd_image /mnt/cdrom/

pray, recite confucian analects and understand why nothing is 
supposed to work the first time round.. (see sig)
  cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image 

where `speed' is anything that your CDRW is capable off
dev is the argument given when you type `cdrecord -scanbus'
cd_image is the name of the image

and that's how babies are made..
:)

-- 
Marc Chung [mchung@asu.edu]
"you know _why_ that doesn't work, right?.. it'd be way to easy."