kernel 2.6.X and cdrecord / xcdroast

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my>]

Having read around 100 posts on this list, I am still confused.

I do understand that we don't want scsi-emulation any longer. So far so
good.

I did change the link /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdb, consequentially.
In order to have access to the drive, I also had to chgrp cdrom /dev/hdb.

Now the drive is gentle to me: it can be mounted; an audio-CD can
be played, and cdrecord -dev=ATAPI -scanbus gives the particulars.

Two questions remain:

1. Some posters say that you need to add hdc=cdrom to your boot
parameters. Is this correct ? Anything needed at all ?

2. xcdroast takes literally minutes to talk to me whenever I click one of
those buttons to select a task, even though it shows the ATAPI-device
correctly. How can it be convinced to work correctly; again ?
Anything still wrong with my setup ?