Using CD drive results in system freeze

[Marc <mplists@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I'm currently running testing.  Today I tried accessing two CDs I
burned via Windows, and while accessing both CDs Debian completely
froze; I had to hard-reset each time (I've only used the CD drive
before to access the install CDs).  The first time Debian froze I had
just run "mount /cdrom" (since the CD hadn't mounted); the second time
the CD appeared to mount, but while I was looking at the properties of
/cdrom in the file browser, the machine completely froze.  In neither
case could I switch to a terminal, ssh in, or use the keyboard.

I haven't fiddled with the CD drive configuration at all since
installing.  The drive is a standard Dell CD drive from a year or two
ago, and fstab has the line, "/dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660
ro,user,noauto          0       0".  The system log showed no error
reports, and I'm using kernel package 2.4.27-2-k6.

I'm relatively new to Debian; any suggestions for what I should check
/ modify / do differently to attempt to prevent this in the future?

--Marc