>any ideas?  For that matter, is there anybody who's gotten cdrecord to
>work with NetBSD-1.3?

Yes.  I have cdrecord working with NetBSD-1.3.  Hardware is:

cd0 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <HP, CD-Writer 6020, 1.07> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable

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