Re: CDROM stop's working 15mins after being mounted

[Alan Cox]

> > Only problem I found is when writing TOC (within cdrecord)
> > I have to wait until it finished (I cannot even change console)
> 
>    Ah, I'm not the only one seeing this then.  During the 'fixating'
> stage of burning I see what you describe.  I THINK it's more to do with
> it hogging the bus (for whatever reason), and nothing being able to be
> swapped in.  Could be a total interrupt hog?

The drive doesn't disconnect so it does indeed hog the entire bus. However
for non-X11 consoles a console change doesn't need data off the machine so
it doesnt really explain why that would also fail.