On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Michel D�nzer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 18:28, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > Basically, the kernel routinely tries to access the CD to check something. > > This > > is progressively wearing down the drive, as there is often nothing to be > > mounted > > (drive empty) yet the kernel keeps on trying to spin the drive up. > > > > This problem also existed on previous kernels.
> > Another problem (much likely related to the same bug) is that if I don't > > leave > > any CD (audio or data - same result) in the drive, the kernel eventually > > reaches > > the conclusion that the drive cannot be accessed and the only cure is to > > reboot; > > neither audio or data CDs can be accesed anymore, I instead get IDE errors. > Have you enabled any automounting related options in the kernel? Or do you > have any automounting related daemons running? (magicdev seems to work > without constant activity here though) Enabled in the kernel, but no utility using it, for now. -- Martin-�ric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
