Comment 49 for bug 581925

Well, that's good news for the patch. The function of cdrom_id is to set those ID_CDROM variables and it's working fine, the output is exactly the same as you would get using a newer recorder. The problem is Brasero related I think, or perhaps is related to the cdrkit fork of cdrtools. You can make an additional step to try to resolve the issue:

Replace cdrkit with the original utils from Jorg Schilling, using Synaptic choose to install cdrecord, mkisofs and cdda2wav. It should prompt you to remove wodim, genisoimage and icedax respectively, that's ok. For those using dvd writers it will be neccessary to create a symlink from genisoimage to mkisofs because Ubuntu version of growisofs depends on this name.

Then, if you can, please paste the output of

cdrecord -minfo

with a blank cd inside the drive.