On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:23:02PM +0200, Sjoerd Simons 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 ? FWIW, hald-addon-storage is totally fucked on my machine as well, and regularly goes into a disk-wait state whenever I try to suspend to ram, so I kill it off by hand whenever I reboot. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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