[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

[didier]

Hi,
there's a process  hald-addon-storage which, surprise, polls removable media. You can try to kill the one associated with your CD/DVD drive. But as you said it's surely a kernel bug and hald only triggers it.

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Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty
https://launchpad.net/bugs/84603