HP cd-writer locking up my system hard!

[Andy <list@firman.us>]

I can't kill X and can't even ssh into my box from another box.
Using Debian 3.0 kernel-2.4.18-bf2.4 
I have read that burners need to be the master device.
So the HP burner is master on IDE2.  I don't know what the deal is.
Whenever I start xcdroast and/or mount the burner to look at a cd,
I freeze up HARD.  I have installed cdrecord and xcdroast.
Here is all the relevant information I can think of:

andy# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus0:
        0,0,0     0) 'HP      ' 'CD-Writer+ 8200 ' '1.0f' Removable CD-ROM
        0,1,0     1) *
        0,2,0     2) *
        0,3,0     3) *
        0,4,0     4) *
        0,5,0     5) *
        0,6,0     6) *
        0,7,0     7) *

Here is relevant info from dmesg:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ServerWorks CSB5: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 79
ServerWorks CSB5: chipset revision 146
ServerWorks CSB5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x08b0-0x08b7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x08b8-0x08bf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD200BB-18DEA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: MAXTOR 6L080L4, ATA DISK drive
hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8200, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: GCR-8481B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 39062500 sectors (20000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2431/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=155114/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
<snip>
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: HP        Model: CD-Writer+ 8200   Rev: 1.0f
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray

andy# ls -al /dev/cd*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 Mar  6 13:07 /dev/cdrom -> hdd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Mar  6 11:29 /dev/cdrw -> scd0
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     24,   0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/cdu535

andy# cat /etc/modules
ide-scsi
eepro100
radeon
usb-ohci
input
usbkbd
keybdev
emu10k1

This was added to lilo.conf:
append="hdc=ide-scsi"

andy# cat /etc/default/cdrecord
CDR_DEVICE=hp
CDR_SPEED=4
CDR_FIFOSIZE=4m
teac=           1,3,0   -1      -1      ""
panasonic=      1,4,0   -1      -1      ""
plextor=        1,4,0   12      -1      ""
sanyo=          1,4,0   12      -1      burnproof
yamaha=         1,5,0   -1      -1      ""
cdrom=          0,6,0   2       1m      ""

This is in /etc/fstab:
/dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0       0
/dev/cdrw       /cdrw           iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0       0

That is all I can think of for details.  There is no info in messages 
or syslog on my lockups.
Am I missing a module??