yip me too,tried 2 different cdrom drives no joy,i could only get it working in fail safe mode (

, tried several commands it all leads back to the hanging

Looking for cdrom /dev/dcd0
Looking for cdrom
/dev/hda
and then hangs, so now that we know the problem were's the answer
a suggestion was atapicd,havnt tried it yet,but are computers ever that simple.