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  1. Bug #9347
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 9347

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

A common cause for this error is a CD-ROM drive which does not work correctly
when DMA is enabled. For this reason, DMA is disabled by default on CD-ROM
devices in Hoary.

A workaround is to use:

echo "using_dma:0" > /proc/ide/hdc/settings

(replacing hdc with your CD-ROM device if appropriate)