On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:45:36PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > -----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!
Sure, if you have another way to detect the insertion of a cd :) > It causes a nightmare on laptops as well. Only on certain somewhat broken dell laptops. > >> 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. Well a status check isn't the same as trying to read from the drive, which would indeed spin up the drive. > > 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? Setting storage_media_check_enabled to false in /etc/hal/hald.conf should stop hal from polling your drive. But as said it shouldn't be necessary.. Could you please also try the test program i sent earlier in this bug ? I can really use that info :) Sjoerd -- "I don't think so," said Ren'e Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
