Unending zip drive access after today's updates

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Feb 9 17:35:41 UTC 2006


On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:30:18AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
 > I updated by FC5T2 system this morning. After reboot to the new kernel,
 > the system continuously accessed a zip disk in my zip drive, hdb4.  I
 > finally rebooted and ejected the disk, starting again without it in
 > place.
 > 
 > After boot, I inserted the disk and a normal amount of activity ensued
 > to recognize the disk, but it will not mount.
 > 
 > Anyone else see the same thing?  What should I bugzilla this against?

The kernel is just doing what someone asked it to.
I'll bet it's hal probing it.  Does it stop if you 'service haldaemon stop' ?

		Dave




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