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I had the same problem described here: Everything would work fine until I inserted a CD/DVD (or left a CD/DVD in from the last time I ran Windows) at which point the computer would lock up approx. 30 seconds later, requiring a hard reset.
I found a way around the problem, and that was to go into the BIOS for my motherboard (Asus P5GDC) and change the IDE mode from "Enhanced" to "Compatibility". After booting back into Ubuntu 9.10, I could put a disk into the drive and it would mount just like it should. I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the inner workings of computers (I can put them together, but I don't understand why they work) so this may not have any relevance. I just saw that HAL was not the problem and that it might have something to do with the way the kernel interacts with the IDE controllers, so I tried it, and it worked. I have no hypothesis as to why.
Hope this helps.