Slow cd

Ikke nicolas.trangez at gmail.com
Sat Jul 10 05:39:21 PDT 2004


I'm quite busy now, I'll try this when I got time and a chronometer ;)

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:26:18 +0200, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:31:55PM +0200, Ikke wrote:
> > Hija,
> >
> > I got a "new" computer now, but while testing ivman, got some problems
> > (well, one to start with, other one isnt hal related).
> >
> > When I insert an audio cd (doesnt matter whether I got hald running as a
> > daemon or in console) it takes some minutes (really) before it is
> > 'discovered'. Well, it's discovered earlier (altough no output on console,
> > but lsof shows me /dev/hdc is in use by hald) and it's added to the device
> > list.
> 
> We might wrongly call detect_media() on an audio CD, can't remember
> and I don't have the sources in front of me, that might be it; care to
> test if not calling detect_media() for audio CD's solve this?
> 
> > Inserting a data cd alsoa takes some time, but that seems to be
> > faster.
> 
> What does 'faster' means here?
> 
> >
> > Starting hald also takes a very long time, and XMMS just stops playing
> > untill hal is done.
> >
> 
> What's does 'very long time' mean here? Is this with or without media
> in your drives? Try without and let us know.
> 
> Also try doing 'time hald --daemon=no' and then terminate with Ctrl+C
> when detection is done - for all we know it might be slow for other
> reasons :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> 
> 
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