it seems to me that the last firmware applied to my cd drive solved the issue.
wolfmanjm: >>Although it is odd that if I boot in single user mode, the drive does not >>give these errors, so it could be something in hald or another daemon (maybe >>smartd?) is interacting? yes, I believe hal is interacting with the devices and trigger the freeze. -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs