On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Lars Nordlund wrote:
I have however been able to lock the machine solidly when writing both CDRWs and DVDR/DVDRWs. I am still trying to understand why (interrupt issue? even mouse pointer stalls in X), but I think it is a separate problem. This behaviour started a couple of weeks ago.
I've seen the same on my Thinkpad T61 with various media -- it ends up writing media that locks up the machine while trying to read it. I just assumed the drive had failed after one too many plane rides:
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-U10N, KZ076SE5954, 1.05> cdrom removable
Glad I'm not the only one :) Cheers, Jared