cdrecord gives the error 'Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character. Cannot open SCSI driver' on RHEL-5

Issue

• The command cdrecord -scanbus  gives the following error:

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (cpu-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
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Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
cdrecord: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.