cdparanoia - scsi emulation problem?

I have a cd-rw/dvd-rom on a laptop that works with scsi emulation just fine - plays dvds, audio cds, writes cds all with no problem using lots of different programs. However, ripperX will not open a cd for ripping, complaining that cdparanoia cannot open /dev/cdrom. /dev/cdrom points to /dev/sr0 and if I tell cdparanoia to find a cdrom drive it comes up with this:

Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
/dev/sr0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM.
Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface
No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/sr0


I've heard of cooked dinners but cooked ioctls is beyond me. Can find nothing to help in man cdparanoia. Can anyone here put me right?

Found the precise answer in the FAQ on cdparanoia's website. Apparently it does not use /dev/cdrom, just pretends to so as to avoid confusing us mortals. It goes straight to the generic scsi device which is /dev/sg0, and it needs read/write access to it. It did not have it on my machine.