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 ?
Sjoerd
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