> On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Mike wrote:
>
> > My CD drive keeps spinning up in 2.1.109. It's got an audio CD in and the
> > CD isn't playing.
> >
> > lsmod shows:
> > ide-cd 20256 0 (autoclean)
> > cdrom 9464 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
> >
> > and I can't think of any reason why anything would have attempted to
> > access the cdrom at all since I rebooted.
> >
> > Playing the CD does work.
> >
> > Also, the CD drive seems to be locked (although this could be a symptom of
> > a buggered drive rather than a kernel thing).
>
> You wouldn't happen to be running something like KDE would you?
Nope.
> Are you running any CD player software or what? A list of processes
Nothing that should have been accessing it.
> currently running when this is happening may be useful. If you are
> running KDE, I know the CD player locks the drive. It may even be
> spinning the CD up to try to look up the CDDB information.
>
It seems to be fixed in 2.1.110. It starts doing it very early on (like
just after init starts) and carries on indefinately.
-- Mike <rickettm@ox.compsoc.net>"I DO want your money, because god wants your money!" -- The Reverend Jimmy, from _Repo_Man_
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