confirming this bug. It's happening on my laptop as well. I passed this to Kyle.
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://launchpad.net/bugs/84603 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs