2010/1/20 Michael Biebl <mbi...@gmail.com>: > 2010/1/20 Marti Raudsepp <ma...@juffo.org>: >> Hi list, >> >> I'm using the latest git version of udisks (rev c8076f0) on a >> temporary machine, which has a LTN403L IDE CD-ROM drive. Due to udisks >> polling the drive, the drive flashes its activity light and physically >> clicks every 5 seconds which gets annoying fast. :) >> This happens regardless of whether there is a disc in the drive. >> >> Also when I eject the tray, it pullsback in straight away. >> >> While running "udisks --inhibit-polling /dev/hdd", this behavior stops. >> >> HAL polling does not cause this behavior; I can see >> "hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hdd (every 2 sec)" in process list > > UDisks/DeviceKit-disks does not support the old ide(-cd) subsystem. > One reason is, that ide-cd does not provide any uevents on media changes. > > I wrote a patch for Debian [1] which pokes the device and fakes > uevents if it detects media changes. > > You might be interested in porting that patch to UDisks.
Or upgrade your system to use libata only. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
