-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: > 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..
Bloody hell. :-) Don't do that please! It causes a nightmare on laptops as well. >> This shouldn't >> spin up the drive though.. Well, I can't change the hardware. This drive certainly seems to spin up on status checks; back when I was running Windows, it would spin up three times during the boot process. Hypothesizing, this may well be in the drive firmware. > 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, it does. Is there a way to configure hal to not run that process, ever? Or to tell it not to poll the CD drive? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEmDRARGZ0aC4lkIIRAoKNAKCAqv/yjAqAFDuZHdkIUh7X12ECXgCgi9/U f4sBWCnB+tzUD2W+2QBMmk4= =23tP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
