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pm-utils package

  1. Bug #606706
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Comment 1 for bug 606706

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Christian Schürer-Waldheim (quincunx) wrote : Re: Regression: HD spins down all the time after upgrade of pm-utils

Martin and Michael, I subscribed you to this bug report because you made the recent changes in pm-utils.

[quote]
    Current hooks when switching to battery:
    - [hal-cd-polling] Disable HAL's polling of CD drives for automounting
      them. Note that this HAL functionality is already obsolete in Debian's
      current GNOME, but still being used in current KDE and XFCE desktops.
    - [harddrive] More aggressive harddrive spindown times

[/quote]

The changelog is saying that a more aggressive harddrive spindown is set when on battery, but could it be that this option is also active when on mains power? Because another thing I notices since pm-utils was updated is that my CD drive spins up from time to time even there is no CD ROM in it, which could be caused by the disabled cd polling.