Comment 8 for bug 10821

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

This is hal checking whether you have inserted a CD, and is perfectly normal.
It also should not result in any disk activity, since it is not touching any
files on disk.

However, with some CD-ROM drives, the kernel prints an error message when hal
polls, which would be logged to disk. Please attach the output from the "dmesg"
command