Comment 11 for bug 117441

I have reproduced the problem but it's slightly different. I can play a CD for over an hour but once I stop the CD I start receiving the following error in kern.log:

Jun 6 23:01:04 lincoln kernel: [ 205.172000] hdb: drive not ready for command
Jun 6 23:01:09 lincoln kernel: [ 210.176000] hdb: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jun 6 23:01:09 lincoln kernel: [ 210.176000] hdb: drive not ready for command
Jun 6 23:03:27 lincoln kernel: [ 2.520152] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Jun 6 23:03:27 lincoln kernel: [ 3.262743] hdb: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L632D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jun 6 23:03:27 lincoln kernel: [ 5.424000] hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

After your system locks run the following command:

cat /var/log/kern.log | grep hdb

and please post.

This only occurs if I have an idle CD or DVD in the drive - probably HAL poking at the drive.