I can confirm that the SC04 firmware from Samsung fixed this issue for my TSST TS-L632D. I used Hiren's Boot CD to boot into DOS with USB support and launched the firmware upgrade from a USB jumpdrive.
-- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs