When are you going to fix this?

[lari sihto]

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