Re: T500 cdrom drive never stops spinning until mount.

From: Nick Bowler
Date: Thu May 13 2010 - 09:04:59 EST


On 19:02 Wed 12 May , Robert Hancock wrote:
> Is something like hal, devicekit, etc. accessing the drive in this case?
> Can you try a minimal boot with no unnecessary processes and see if the
> same thing happens?

Good call, booting with init=/bin/zsh and sure enough, the cd drive
spins down. Looks like udev is causing the constant spin-ups, so I'll
post to linux-hotplug instead.

Sorry for the noise,
--
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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