[The General]

since i dist-ugraded to debian unstable, if there is a CD in the drive, on boot it hangs on the boot from cd part, until i press eject. i cant mount anything and i get this error in dmesg

hdd: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: media error (bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1024
Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 256

any ideas? i havent tried knoppix yet, im doing that in a minute