I guess this problem is known by now since it has happened to me (and others) for years.<br>When you insert a broken media onto the cd drive, for example a scratched cd-rw or dvd-rw that cannot be read,<br>hal keeps polling the device endlessly (several minutes) before finally aborting. <br>
Shouldn't there be a more elegant solution to this like maybe aborting much sooner and maybe<br>send some "media is broken" message to all apps that may be interested of the specific event.<br>BTW, why is the cd drive polled. Doesn't it send any interrupts to the system when the tray is loaded/media is inserted?<br>