Strange cdrw behavior

[Dave Patterson <sdpatt2@gmail.com>]

SID laptop:

Running KDE on a HP Compaq nx7010 with a TEAC DW-244E-A DVDR/CDRW Drive.
I get this error during boot:

Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: hdc: packet command error:
status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: hdc: packet command error:
error=0x34 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x03 }
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: ATAPI device hdc:
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel:   Error: Medium error -- (Sense
key=0x03)
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel:   (reserved error code) --
(asc=0x57, ascq=0x00)

On an empty drive.  The drive light constantly flashes, and opening and
reclosing the drive (empty) results in hal calling it a blank cd.  How
do I get hal to stop this strange stuff?  Same behavior with Gnome.
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Cheers,

  Dave