DVD drive polling

[lee]

Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> writes:

> (I'm breaking this out into another thread, as it doesn't belong to the
> firewall one.)
>
> Allegedly, on or about 13 November 2012, lee sent:
>> I still haven't even found a way to disable the DVD-drive polling.
>> Where is the configuration for that?  Or what makes the light flash all
>> the time?
>
> I don't see that, here.  Fedora 17, kernel details in my signature,
> running Gnome in the fallback mode, mostly the default install from the
> live disk for 64-bit, with a few extra applications.  My DVD drive is
> PATA, you should say what yours is.  It may make a difference.

The DVDs are connected to SATA ports.  It's very (only) noticeable here
because none of the devices connected to the on-board SATA cotrollers is
mounted or otherwise in use by anything I'm doing/running.  I'm not
running gnome, just an X-session started with startx and i3 as WM, and
yet the light constantly flashes like once a second.  I can't see
anything in the output of PS that would indicate what is making the
light flash.

Uname says: Linux 3.6.6-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 5 21:59:35 UTC 2012
x86_64


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