I just installed K3b, set it up and now Its saying it won't work properly because I need to enable scsi emulation. What?
This is the message I get:

cdrdao 1.1.7 does not support ATAPI
The configured version of cdrdao does not support writing to ATAPI devices without SCSI emulation and there is at least one writer in your system not configured to use SCSI emulation.
Solution: The best and recommended solution is to enable ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) for all writer devices. This way you won't have any problems. Or you install (or select as the default) a more recent version of cdrdao.
No support for ATAPI with cdrdao
You will not be able to use all your reading devices as copy sources since there is at least one not configured to use SCSI emulation and your system does not support ATAPI with cdrdao.
Solution: The best and recommended solution is to enable ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) for all writer devices. This way you won't have any problems.

Checked on slackware site, the only package out is the cdrdao version I have!

Whats the best solution to this problem?

You have all the right software, you just need to recompile your kernel. ATAPI writeable cd drives are not supported in Linux properly yet, only SCSI ones are. So you need to use SCSI emulation on your drives. To do this, you need to recompile the kernel, with the IDE/ATA/ATAPI Cd drives option OFF, and SCSI emulation on, SCSI support ON and also pick SCSI CD-ROM support ON.
Then add:
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
to your /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo, and reboot.
Then it should all work
Guy

Recompile kernel. That sucks

Pardon me.