On Tuesday 13 June 2006 17:23 pm, you 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 ? > > Sjoerd
Yes, that solves it. -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
