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  1. Bug #75295
  2. Comment #49

Comment 49 for bug 75295

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beniwtv (beniwtv-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: Feisty freeze, kernel (?) tries to access DVD drive

I don't think it can be narrowed down to ASUS.

I have a HP dv6106eu laptop (see my post above) with the TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L632D (seems to be Samsung), and get this problem.

My guess is that HAL polls the drive, and the drive doesn't respond correctly or in a timely manner, so HAL tries inmediately to re-poll it, which over time might cause the drive queue to be full and not accepting more commands. But HAL continues to poll and so uses 100%, maybe HAL could be trapped in a loop without sleep().

But don't trust me to much - I'm not an expert nor have a clue :)