I started with four processes: -acpi, -keyboard, and two -storage processes.
Killing the second -storage process didn't stop the access, but when I killed the first one as well, the beeping stopped. -- hal's automount_enabled_hint causes disk to beep every few seconds https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/27323 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs