hi guys. Intel's PowerTOP utility suggested this: Disable 'hal' from polling your cdrom with: hal-stop-polling /dev/scd0 'hal' is the component that auto-opens a file browser when you plug in a CD but disables SATA power saving from kicking in.
so i googled around to figure out how to do this, as the command "hal-stop-polling" doesn't exist in Debian Etch. i came across this page, which describes how to achieve what PowerTOP suggests (under the "cd-rom" heading): http://wiki.teuwen.org/LaptopHp so i made the changes to this file: /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi and restarted dbus: /etc/init.d/dbus restart however, the storage.media_check_enabled property for my cd-rom is still set to true. does anyone have any suggestions for how to fix this? i've attached my "20-storage-methods.fdi" file if that's any help. cheers, Nick
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