[BUG] : hdd led blinks constantly

[William Lahti]

I'm running Kubuntu 6.06 on an IBM Thinkpad R40... HAL 0.5.7 is
running but there is no frequent blinking.

Perhaps your LED also shows CDROM activity (the bug report also
suggests that), in which case the only way to mitigate that (in
software) would be to slow down HAL's CDROM polling.

On 10/29/06, neologix at free.fr <neologix at free.fr> wrote:
> 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
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