[Solved] Optical drive gone wild

scatterplot · 2013-10-26 00:23:44

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)

cfr · 2013-10-26 03:21:41

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)

scatterplot · 2013-10-28 01:28:31

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.

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#1 2013-10-26 00:23:44

[Solved] Optical drive gone wild

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Re: [Solved] Optical drive gone wild

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Re: [Solved] Optical drive gone wild

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