[BUG] : hdd led blinks constantly

[neologix at free.fr]

Hi.
Well, the fact is that Redmond's OS, for example, doesn't do that.
So it must be a hal issue, not an hardware one.


cheers



Selon William Lahti <xfurious at gmail.com>:

> I'm running Kubuntu 6.06 on an IBM Thinkpad R40... HAL 0.5.7 is
> running but there is no frequent blinking.
>
> Perhaps your LED also shows CDROM activity (the bug report also
> suggests that), in which case the only way to mitigate that (in
> software) would be to slow down HAL's CDROM polling.
>
> On 10/29/06, neologix at free.fr <neologix at free.fr> wrote:
> > Hi.
> > Hal works pretty well me, but I'm experiencing a rather long-standing
> issue,
> > which is quite annoying : every 2 seconds, my hdd led blinks.
> > I'm not the only one, as can be seen from this Debian bug report:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360554
> >
> > looks like the polling of the cdrom drive triggers the blinking of the hard
> disk
> > drive too.
> > It's quite annoying, because it prevents from discerning real disk
> activity.
> >
> > feel free to ask every information that might seem useful,
> >
> > cheers
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