constantly polls floppy drive
Bug #384469 reported by
Martin Emrich
This bug affects 12 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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obsolete |
Fix Released
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Medium
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devicekit-disks (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: devicekit-disks
Since I upgraded my karmic amd64 installation today, I noticed that my floppy drive is constantly running. I found a process "devkit-
Constantly polling of floppy drives should be disabled, as it is noisy and wears out the drive mechanics unnecessarily. Is there something like "hal-disable-
Related branches
Changed in devicekit-disks (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in devicekit: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in devicekit: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in devicekit-disks (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in devicekit: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in devicekit-disks (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
tags: | added: iso-testing |
Changed in devicekit: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in devicekit: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
Changed in devicekit: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
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I don’t have a floppy drive on either of the machines I have running karmic, but the ATA activity LED is constantly lit on one of them.
Killing the “devkit- disks-daemon: polling /dev/sr0 /dev/fd0” process makes the LED behave normally. Is this related or should I report another bug?
dmesg and lshw for the computer in question: heh.fi/ hw/virhe. 20090607. dmesg.karmic heh.fi/ hw/virhe. 20090607. lshw
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