autorun / magicdev issue? [Was: Blinking Disk Access Light]
Bret Hughes
bhughes at elevating.com
Sat Nov 15 06:13:29 UTC 2003
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 00:02, Boyce Griffith wrote:
> >Boyce Griffith wrote:
> >
> >>I'm having an issue with Fedora Core 1 on an IBM
> >>ThinkPad A31. When I am logged into an account, the
> >>hard disk access light blinks continuously. The
> >>flashing is very regular and brief (there is about a
> >>2
> >>second delay between flashes).
>
> After poking around some more, it seems that the
> offending processes are autorun for KDE and magicdev
> for Gnome.
>
> It looks like when autorun checks for a new CD, it
> accesses the filesystem in such a way as to cause the
> disk access light thing to come on... This wouldn't
> be a big deal, except that the flashing light makes
> enough of a sound to be extremely irritating.
>
What does a flashing light sound like?
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