xcdroast and 2.6.9 in Debian

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

I discovered today that for some reason my xcdroast had been removed. I 
was a bit surprised since I never removed it myself.

Anyhow, I reinstalled it using dselect and tried to configure it. During 
installation I told it NOT to use SCSI emulation and NOT to make 
/dev/sg? devices.

But now it takes *ages* to detect and configure my two drives. When I 
ask it to rescan it just never sees my CDROM, only the CD-RW.

And I get these in my /var/log/syslog:
kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
kernel: hdd: irq timeout: error=0x00
kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete
.
.
.
and so on.

Then I tried by allowing it to use SCSI and allowing it to make /dev/sg? 
devices. Same results with similar delays.

And if I try to eject the CD from CDROM, it takes another 5 or more 
minutes to open the tray,maybe even longer.

Earlier I was running the 2.6.7 kernel. Now since a few days ago, I am 
running 2.6.9 kernel (vanilla) on Sarge.

Is there a problem with xcdroast or am I missing something really 
important. BTW, I do not have scsi emulation enabled, use ATAPI all the 
time which seems to work with cdrecord.

thanks,
->HS