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mkkot

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-12-20

Posts: 287

How to stop polling my dvd drive?

Hello,

there was once an udisks command but David Zeuthen said it's now unmaintained and we should use udisks2. Now, few years have passed and there is no udisks2 but udisksctl with no --inhibit-polling option. So my question is how to inhibit polling now?

Rexilion

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Registered: 2013-12-23

Posts: 784

Re: How to stop polling my dvd drive?

Look here. Why would you want to disable it?

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mkkot

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2009-12-20

Posts: 287

Re: How to stop polling my dvd drive?

Hej, thanks for the link. I wish to disable it... well, I don't really have to give any reason, I'm using Linux, I just want to disable it ;p
Anyway, the reason is that my HDD led blinks and I wish to know how much this is because disc activity and how much about sata dvd polling. BTW Windows doesn't activate hdd led when polling my internal drives, how that's possible?

Last edited by mkkot (2014-04-23 09:14:33)

Rexilion

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Registered: 2013-12-23

Posts: 784

Re: How to stop polling my dvd drive?

That's odd.

Windows is probably using another method to poll your drive that does not make your hdd led blink.

Are you sure your hdd led is blinking because of polling? Is it polling in intervals or something?

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mkkot

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-12-20

Posts: 287

Re: How to stop polling my dvd drive?

Actually I'm not sure, that's why I want to disable polling. It blinks too often for a 5 seconds interval but also I can't hear hdd noise.