Thanks; storage-probes.txt confirmed that hal really just polls the USB drive with the addon-storage. So it must be something else...
Can you please do sudo strace -f -o hald.trace -p `pidof hald` let that run for a while (maybe a minute), then press Control-C and attach hald.trace here? -- hal's automount_enabled_hint causes disk to beep every few seconds https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/27323 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
