On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:05:38PM -0400, Daniel Schepler wrote: > On Tuesday 13 June 2006 17:23 pm, you wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:29:55PM -0400, Daniel Schepler wrote: > > > I can confirm that this happens on my laptop as well; when a CD is in the > > > drive, I can hear the drive spinning all the time, although at a lower > > > speed than when the disc is being read. After I stop hald manually, the > > > drive spins down after about a minute. > > > > What hal does is poll the cddrive for status every two seconds.. This > > shouldn't spin up the drive though.. Could you try to kill/stop the > > /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-storage processes that hal spawns (These poll your > > drive) and check if that solves it ? > > Yes, that solves it.
Ok, well in the ioctl's/commands that the addon uses shouldn't spin up the drive.. But well, hardware can do odd things :) It would be interested to know what actually triggers the spin of the drive.. I've attached a little test program which does two of the three things the addon usually does. To compile just run gcc test.c -o test.. After that run it as root and pass the device name of your cd drive it (e.g. ./test /dev/hdc).. Please let me know when the drive spins up (if at all) Furthermore can you send me the output of running lshal on your system (while hal is running ofcourse :). Sjoerd -- Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
