On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:52:41PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > 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.
So the bug is in a kernel driver, possibly. But, it's still hal triggering the bug by the continual polling. > Second, you can very easily disable this behaviour: man hal-disable-polling Great, but it's still not the default behaviour. Does every user need to find out how to disable it after they become sufficiently annoyed by the constant spinning up of their CD drive? Seriously, mine all spin up just a second after they spin down from the previous poll until I kill HAL (-addon-storage). This continual wear and tear on the drive is unreasonable. I don't want HAL to kill my hardware and constantly annoy me, just because I leave a CD in the drive. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
