Comment 113 for bug 75295

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NiksaVel (nikola-leder) wrote : Re: Feisty freeze, kernel (?) tries to access DVD drive

Here is how I deal with the problem so far:

the workaround here:
http://www.liddicott.com/~sam/?p=79

doesn't really do it for me, because when I start getting this messages and the system is half frozen, my DVD burning is already failed and I'll have to throw away yet another DVD and restart the process.

Now, after every burn I reset the ATAPI drive with:

sudo hdparm -w /dev/hdc
sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc (to turn DMA on again)