On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:21:06PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > [0] I suspect it is 10 times a second, because that's the number of > > libata wakeups I see, but I haven't actually checked. > > Hal polls the CD drive every 2 seconds afaik.
Hal indeed polls every 2 seconds at most and even less when something hints hal that nobody the machine is idle. Could you strace the running hald-addon-storage to check if indeed it's polling your drive multiple times a second ? Sjoerd -- All hope abandon, ye who enter here! -- Dante Alighieri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]