Nathan J. Williams wrote:

> Today I finally tried to burn a CD on my shiny new PC.
> It didn't work so well; in fact, it hung the entire system. The
> cdrecord sequence looks like this:

> pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: Advanced Micro Devices AMD768 IDE
> Controller (rev. 0x04) pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
> pciide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <MAXTOR 6L080L4>
> wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
> wd0: 76345 MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 156355584
> sectors wd0: 32-bit data port
> wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6
> pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using
> DMA data transfers) pciide0: secondary channel configured to
> compatibility mode atapibus0 at pciide0 channel 1: 2 targets
> cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <LITE-ON LTR-32123S, , XS0R> type 5 cdrom
> removable cd0: 32-bit data port
> cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33)
> pciide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
> cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using
> DMA data transfers)

Connect your burner to the second IDE-bus. If I burn a cd from the a
device on the same bus it will lock my system as well. Otherwise I hardly
notice the burning process.