I thought this only happened to my office old machine, instead this happens on my laptop running feisty too, both with readcd and readom. I can add that in /var/log/messages I find:
Feb 6 15:07:33 frattaglia kernel: [ 2418.092000] ata1: DRQ=1 with device error, dev_stat 0x59 Feb 6 15:07:33 frattaglia kernel: [ 2418.092000] res 51/51:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x3 (HSM violation) Feb 6 15:07:33 frattaglia kernel: [ 2418.092000] ata1: soft resetting port Feb 6 15:07:33 frattaglia kernel: [ 2418.576000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 Feb 6 15:07:33 frattaglia kernel: [ 2418.576000] ata1: EH complete This should be reproducible by anyone, at this point. -- "copy disk" blocks at end https://launchpad.net/bugs/80258 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs