Occasionally system hangs during eject of DVD-drive

I have an irritating problem where I cannot get rid off (yet).
When I am burning cd on nero (latest version) the system starts to hang when the DVD-drive is ejecting the CD -> I have to restart the comp.
Same when I use DVD Decrypter, when I create an ISO file on the hard drive from DVD. It starts to hang when he ejects the DVD.
I started to play around with the automatic eject settings on the drive itself and in the programs and try to set it to "do not eject", but it does't work.
Any hints/ideas?
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Thanks for the input.
I did not do so much until now...(time)
But what I did is send an email to Nero tech support with all the information included from all there Info utilities, which should help answering some support questions. I can tell you that the support is probably just as "good" as MSI's support. It took them 4 days to send a non helpfull answer... and I had to remind them about the request as well.
I now have latest version of Nero (6.3.1.15) and the drivers from Mega 180 cd.
I assumed that the drivers from my Mega 180 cd were the same from the web (2004-2-17) and that the less helpfull drivers -mentioned in the link by you Normunds- were shipped together with bios 3.0. (I have standard 3.30). But maybe that isn't so...
Anyway Mishima, you have the drivers from the web right (ITB)? And you have let's say half my problem..hmmm
Probably I will try out the following, and if the first of them doesn't help I take the next point and so on:
* Install NEC 2500 latest firmware 1.07
* Install the drivers from the web -ITB- (2004-2-17)
* Install the drivers nVidia nForce 4.24 WHQL
Does anyone have experience with nVidia nForce 4.24 WHQL drivers ??
(http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp_4.24)
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storage.cdrom.hddvdr = false (bool)
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storage.cdrom.write_speed = 8468 (0x2114) (int)
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storage.media_check_enabled = true (bool)
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storage.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
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storage.removable.media_available = false (bool)
storage.removable.media_size = 487464960 (0x1d0e2000) (uint64)
storage.removable.support_async_notification = false (bool)
storage.requires_eject = true (bool)
storage.size = 0 (0x0) (uint64)
storage.vendor = 'TSSTcorp' (string)
Last edited by ndlarsen (2009-01-28 14:05:24)

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[ 10.010513] ACPI Warning: 0x00000880-0x000008af SystemIO conflicts with Region \LEDY 1 (20130517/utaddress-251)
[ 10.010518] ACPI Warning: 0x00000880-0x000008af SystemIO conflicts with Region \LEDX 2 (20130517/utaddress-251)
[ 10.010523] ACPI Warning: 0x00000880-0x000008af SystemIO conflicts with Region \SPKR 3 (20130517/utaddress-251)
[ 10.010528] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 123.417439] EXT4-fs (dm-2): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem
[ 123.437528] EXT4-fs (dm-2): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 168.871] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
[ 169.336] (WW) intel(0): loading DRI2 whilst the GPU is wedged.
Not sure what's going on...hope someone can help.

So far, things have seemed to improve simply by removing "quiet" from my kernel boot parameters. Still would appreciate some more insight into the error messages.

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