I have solved this problem (sort of) by running sudo hal-disable-polling --device /dev/cdrom, which I have aliased to cdoff.
When I want to use the cd drive again, I run cdon, which is aliased to sudo hal-disable-polling --enable --device /dev/cdrom My current kernel is: Linux opal2 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux I'd be very surprised if this bug has been fixed. It was still happening in the above kernel. -- ata2 io problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78659 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
