Comment 39 for bug 231575

After getting feedback from the linux kernel bugzilla, I worked around my timeout errors by disabling media detection polling. I'd rather have a working drive than auto-mounting.

'hal-disable-polling --device /dev/sr0' (assuming your device is /dev/sr0)

Thankfully, this stays in effect permanently (even with reboot) until it is changed and the command nicely tells you the file it creates to make the config change.

Does this work (or not work) for anyone else?