<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Well--  I solved my problem (thanks much to the HAL archives and a bit of research on my part).    <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> One of my suspicions was true--  the issue seems to be that HAL doesn’t particularly like the virtual devices presented to the operating system by the Sunfire X4200 bios/IPMI.     <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The “workaround” was that I created an fdi file called 99-disable-virtual-devices.fdi in /usr/share/hal/fdi/30osvendor , and it looks like this:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p>         <deviceinfo version="0.2"><o:p></o:p>            <device><o:p></o:p>             <match key="storage.vendor" string="AMI"><o:p></o:p>               <match key="info.product" string="Virtual CDROM"><o:p></o:p>                 <merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge><o:p></o:p>               </match><o:p></o:p>             </match><o:p></o:p>           </device><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p>            <device><o:p></o:p>             <match key="storage.vendor" string="AMI"><o:p></o:p>               <match key="info.product" string="Virtual Floppy"><o:p></o:p>                 <merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge><o:p></o:p>               </match><o:p></o:p>             </match><o:p></o:p>           </device><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p>         </deviceinfo><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Which basically says, if it’s an AMI (American Megatrends bios) device, AND it’s either a Virtual Floppy or Virtual CDROM, then disable the media probe/check.    That seems to make HAL and my system’s load much, much happier.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> As I said—that’s a “workaround”---    unfortunately, my gut feeling is that it’s a toss-up as to whether this is a HAL issue (in dealing with the virtual device), or it’s a SUN issue (in that, it’s presenting the virtual device in a funky way?)…..       Hopefully, some developer(s) on this list might have an idea?  <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’d be more than happy to provide any of you additional information required to help this get resolved in the long run…….<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> --<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kent</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> ---------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p> Kent C. Brodie - <a href="mailto:brodie@phys.mcw.edu">brodie@phys.mcw.edu</a><o:p></o:p> Department of Physiology<o:p></o:p> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Medical</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:place></st1:State><o:p></o:p> (414) 456-8590<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>