diff -Nur hal-0.5.10.orig/hald/freebsd/addons/addon-storage.c hal-0.5.10/hald/freebsd/addons/addon-storage.c
--- hal-0.5.10.orig/hald/freebsd/addons/addon-storage.c	2007-07-26 13:00:28.000000000 -0500
+++ hal-0.5.10/hald/freebsd/addons/addon-storage.c	2007-11-28 16:31:30.929013770 -0600
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
   boolean		is_cdrom;
   boolean		had_media;
   struct timeval	next_update;
-} addon = { { 2, 0 } };
+} addon = { { 8, 0 } };
 
 /* see MMC-3 Working Draft Revision 10 */
 static boolean
diff -Nur hal-0.5.10.orig/hald/linux/addons/addon-storage.c hal-0.5.10/hald/linux/addons/addon-storage.c
--- hal-0.5.10.orig/hald/linux/addons/addon-storage.c	2007-07-26 13:00:28.000000000 -0500
+++ hal-0.5.10/hald/linux/addons/addon-storage.c	2007-11-28 16:31:18.704317124 -0600
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
 	if (system_is_idle)
 		interval_in_seconds = 16;
 	else
-		interval_in_seconds = 2;
+		interval_in_seconds = 8;
 
 	if (poll_timer > 0)
 		g_source_remove (poll_timer);
diff -Nur hal-0.5.10.orig/hald/solaris/addons/addon-storage.c hal-0.5.10/hald/solaris/addons/addon-storage.c
--- hal-0.5.10.orig/hald/solaris/addons/addon-storage.c	2007-07-26 13:00:28.000000000 -0500
+++ hal-0.5.10/hald/solaris/addons/addon-storage.c	2007-11-28 16:31:41.969642940 -0600
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 #include <logger.h>
 
-#define	SLEEP_PERIOD	5
+#define	SLEEP_PERIOD	8
 
 static void
 my_dbus_error_free(DBusError *error)