[BUG] : hdd led blinks constantly

[neologix at free.fr]

Hi.
Hal works pretty well me, but I'm experiencing a rather long-standing issue,
which is quite annoying : every 2 seconds, my hdd led blinks.
I'm not the only one, as can be seen from this Debian bug report:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360554

looks like the polling of the cdrom drive triggers the blinking of the hard disk
drive too.
It's quite annoying, because it prevents from discerning real disk activity.

feel free to ask every information that might seem useful,

cheers