490 meg syslog, 797 meg messages files, after 1 week (my logfile rotation period)

[Artem Kachitchkine]

> This is from /proc/kmsg every 5 seconds: 
> <5>sde: Unit Not Ready, sense:
> <5>SCSI device sde: 13280 512-byte hdwr sectors (7 MB)
> <5>sde: Write Protect is off
> <5>sde: Unit Not Ready, sense:
> <5>SCSI device sde: 13280 512-byte hdwr sectors (7 MB)
> <5>sde: Write Protect is off

I don't see HAL messages, only from the kernel sd driver. Bug your 
kernel maintainers :)

-Artem.