You are not logged in.
Pages: 1
Hi!
Finally took the plunge and installed Arch w/ Gnome. After install one of the first things I noticed was the crazy amount of times the optical drive is polled. Sometimes I think its random, at other times not. I'll open a new tab in Firefox and it'll poll the drive. As I type this the drive has been polled twice, freezing the system until its done.
I searched the wiki and forums and the only answers I've found are to:
1. Remove the drive.
2. Unload cdrom and sr_mod modules from the Kernel, and
3. Blacklist these group(s) in /etc/default/grub
I'll probably just end up blacklisting the sr_mod in grub as that will take care of the 'depends' as well. It'll rule out using a USB drive too because scsi_mod won't load if sr_mod is blacklisted.
Any other solutions here?
Thanks for your time.
Last edited by scatterplot (2013-10-28 01:25:57)
Load"*",8,1
Offline
What do the logs say? For example, journalctl -b --no-pager --full | grep -i sr0 or similar might find something interesting. (I can't tell you exactly as I don't have an optical drive so I don't know what the device will be but grep for something appropriate.) You probably need to run this as root or with sudo to get useful results.
EDIT: Is there a disk in the drive?
Last edited by cfr (2013-10-26 03:22:02)
CLI Paste | How To Ask Questions
Arch Linux | x86_64 | GPT | EFI boot | refind | stub loader | systemd | LVM2 on LUKS
Lenovo x270 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz | Intel Wireless 8265/8275 | US keyboard w/ Euro | 512G NVMe INTEL SSDPEKKF512G7L
Offline
Yanked out the drive, gave it the once over, cleaned out the bay, stuck it back in and not a peep from it. Weird. Well I did learn how to generate a hell of a lot of reports! Thanks, cfr.
Load"*",8,1
Offline
Pages: 1