On Tuesday, 4 June 2024 06:23:00 BST Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Sunday, 2 June 2024 16:30:07 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > >> Every few minutes my motorized cupholder kicks its motor... Which means > >> **something** is kicking /dev/sr0 every few minutes checking for > >> media... I need to know what it is and how to stop it... =\ > > > > Assuming you're not running some media player application at the > > time, have you checked lsof? > > > > I have the same problem with a spinning drive. It is a matter of > > time after I run 'hdparm -Y /dev/sda' before something wakes it up > > again. I'm guessing udev is probing it, but can't find any evidence > > of it. :-/ > > Do you have smartd running? > Think, by default, it polls all the drives. > > -- > Joost
Ahh! Yes, it is running:
~ $ rc-update -s -v | grep smart
smartd | default
This would explain it. Thanks!
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