On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, Ronald Hahm wrote about, Re: Blinking Drive Lights:
> I do not find anything in the syslogs. I have a SCSI CDROM. I do not have a
> IDE CDROM.
Ah!, well i did say IF you have an IDE cdrom, so it look as if my theory
goes out the window, its now, thinking time.
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> Ron
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> Richard Adams wrote:
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> > On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, Ronald Hahm wrote about, Blinking Drive Lights:
> > > I am using Redhat 6.2 with the KDE desktop. I seem to notice after I
> > > login the hard drive light and the cd-rom light blink on simultaneously
> > > every two seconds. Now I suspect that this is because it is simulating
> > > the autorun of cdroms that are loaded. Can anyone tell me how to turn
> > > this feature off?
> >
> > Autorun ?? i doubt, if the leds light up togehter then it sounds like you
> > have a IDE cdrom, most motherboards have a IDE actitity led, when IDE
> > interrupts occur the led will blink no matter if it is a HD or a CDROM,
> > that gives the impressition that you have both HD and CDROM activity.
> >
> > If the cdrom led blinks then some or other program/process is checking the
> > cdrom for data, are there any indications in your syslogs regarding CDROM
> > or /dev/hdXX or /dev/cdrom ???
> >
> > Devices which are mounted / unmounted are written to dmesg, tail dmesg and
> > see if there is any message about the cdrom there also.
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