Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:55:15PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> hal does not poll removable disks, it does though poll cd-rom drives for new >> media and afaik there is no way around that if you want automount for cdrom >> drives to work > > Spinning up the CD drive every 30 seconds is simply not an acceptable > "solution". If that's the best HAL can do, it should be disabled by > default, and users will simply have to select the device by hand; we're > only talking about automatic mounting here, after all.
First, polling the cd drive for new media should not spin it up. If it does it is most likely a kernel/driver or firmware bug. Second, you can very easily disable this behaviour: man hal-disable-polling Anyways, this has become very OT. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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