provide a way to disable drive polling
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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hal (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Martin Pitt | ||
nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After installing either Hoary or Breezy on my Vaio SR17 laptop, the hard drive
emits a very faint beep every couple of seconds, forever. If I put my ear very
close to the machine, in between beeps I can hear clicks. The laptop is also
very sluggish: hitting return in a terminal, moving the mouse, etc. often
doesn't respond for several seconds.
I tracked it down to the hal automount_
every few seconds in some way that affects the hard drive. Uncommenting the code
in /etc/hal/
to set automount_
restart hal? It doesn't seem to have an /etc/init.d file) makes the noises stop
and makes the system much more responsive.
Hardware on this laptop which may be relevant to automounting checks:
- There's no built-in CDROM drive. CD is external (via pcmcia or usb).
- There's a built-in memory stick reader (internal but implemented as a USB
device, and seen as sda at boot time) though I very seldom have a memory stick
inserted into it.
- The hard drive (not the original one) is a WD600VE-00HDT0. I don't know if the
original IBM disk made this beeping noise during the hal polls, because the
drive itself was so noisy the additional noises wouldn't have been audible.
Changed in hal: | |
status: | Needs Info → Confirmed |
Turns out uncommenting that storage. automount_ enabled_ hint line (to make it
false) doesn't solve the problem.
In hoary, I needed to add two lines: one for storage_ media_check_ enabled and one automount_ enabled_ hint, setting both to false in /etc/hal/hald.conf. automount_ enabled_ hint (note the . instead of the first underscore), I media_check_ enabled, but setting both of
for storage_
That worked. Since the commented-out line in breezy references
storage.
also tried adding a line for storage.
those to false doesn't cure the problem in breezy. I also tried it with the
underscores (like in hoary) but that didn't work either.