For me this did indeed turn out to be the DMA problem. You can check/set your CDROM's status using hdparm. If hdparm works for your cdrom, then you can enable DMA permanently by editing the /etc/hdparm.conf file.
The was a note in the breezy documentation about this, but I haven't been able to find anything in the dapper docs. -- cdparanoia is slow https://launchpad.net/bugs/13823 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
