Hello, Recently, during on of my potato upgrades, something happened. Now, approx once an hour, my CD-ROM drive is being accessed (nothing is in the drive).
At first I thought the problem might be cdplayer_applet (from helix-gnome), so I tried to kill it. First I removed it from my panel. However, the process still lived on. Even kill -9 didn't work, so I presume that the kernel was busy trying to read from the non-existent disk (2.2.17pre6 I think). Eventually, the program died, and I thought the problem was solved. Until, approx one hour later, and the computer started accessing the CD-Drive again... fuser /dev/cdrom shows nothing (next time I will try fuser /dev/hdd, just in case the symlink was confusing it). Not only that, but the noises produced were really horrid (like it was trying to force the head past the limit where it can't go). The moment I walked into my room it stopped. So, I would be interested to know if anybody has had similar problems? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
