Package: hal Version: 0.5.8.1-6.1 Followup-For: Bug #370186
With a CD or DVD in the drive, it spins constantly. Is the "fix" adding documentation to /usr/share/doc/hal/README.Debian? It took me a while to find the culprit -- I spent time trying to figure out if it was a problem with acpi, hdparm, etc. I watched a movie on my laptop (HP dv9000z) and when it was done, left the DVD in the drive. The next morning my DVD is still spinning at full speed, REALLY hot, and now makes a grunch noise when I load or eject it that it did not do before. Hmm. Not even two months old. :( I may be demanding for a non-coder who is not skilled enough to submit patches, but IMHO this should be fixed in a better way. Users will not move the example script into place until after they notice the problem and after they identify hal as the problem. At that point their drive may be damaged. Non technical users may not even know about the existence of /usr/share/doc/hal/README.Debian in the first place. As an aside, when I use Nathanael Nerode's script to single out my drive with the info.product string, the DVD spins down. However there are interesting side effects. Opening a konsole window and using tab completion pauses for a sec while the DVD spins up again. After konsole (or some deeper layer in KDE) is satisfied that the DVD in the drive is still there, my tab completion finishes up. This with the working directory on the hard drive, not the DVD. Interesting. When I move the example fdi to disable checks for all CD/DVD's (since there's only one anyway) I don't get the pause issue, but the drive does spin up from time to time (1-5 minutes) to check. lshal reports my hardware as: info.product = 'DVDRAM GSA-4084N' (string) To get the manufacturer as well: info.product = 'DVDRAM GSA-4084N' (string) info.vendor = 'HL-DT-ST' (string) My kernel comes from the buildserver.net archive, to work around some nVidia nForce issues fixed in 2.6.19+. I don't think that has anything to do with it, but it does change things as the 2.6.20 kernel has moved pata drives into the scsi subsystem alongside sata drives. So my DVD is not /dev/hdc, but /dev/scd0. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.71-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3.4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage1 0.5.8.1-6.1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.8.1-6.1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-2 userspace USB programming library ii libvolume-id0 0.103-2 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-23 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii pciutils 1:2.2.4~pre4-1 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.103-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.72-7 USB console utilities Versions of packages hal recommends: ii eject 2.1.4-2.1 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
