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Lexion

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Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 510

can I disable the cd drive via software?

I have a macbook 2,1 with a noisy cd drive and I rarely use it.  It's especially annoying when it checks for cds after arch resumes from pm-suspend.
Is there any way to basically turn off the cd drive without unplugging the wire (which voids the really strict macbook warranty) so
that it will be quiet on resume?  Also I use rEFIt and am ok with using the efi shell, however a linux-based fix would be best.

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Rorschach

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From: Ankh-Morpork

Registered: 2008-11-07

Posts: 143

Re: can I disable the cd drive via software?

It could already help you with your issue if you figure out which cdrom drive you have, so which kernel-module it uses and blacklist that module.

Lexion

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Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 510

Re: can I disable the cd drive via software?

I took out all the modules that could be driving my ch drive (sr-mod, scsi-mod, cdrom).  Something is telling me that the cd drive noise-making intructions are in openefi (mac bios) or hardware.

Sorry it took me so long to reply.

Last edited by Lexion (2009-05-19 12:40:03)

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