Package: hal
Version: 0.5.8.1-6.1
Followup-For: Bug #370186
With a CD or DVD in the drive, it spins constantly. Is the "fix" adding
documentation to
/usr/share/doc/hal/README.Debian? It took me a while to find the culprit -- I
spent time trying to figure out if it
was a problem with acpi, hdparm, etc. I watched a movie on my laptop (HP
dv9000z) and when it was done, left the DVD
in the drive. The next morning my DVD is still spinning at full speed, REALLY
hot, and now makes a grunch noise when
I load or eject it that it did not do before. Hmm. Not even two months old.
:(
I may be demanding for a non-coder who is not skilled enough to submit patches,
but IMHO this should be fixed in a
better way. Users will not move the example script into place until after they
notice the problem and after they
identify hal as the problem. At that point their drive may be damaged. Non
technical users may not even know about
the existence of /usr/share/doc/hal/README.Debian in the first place.
As an aside, when I use Nathanael Nerode's script to single out my drive with
the info.product string, the DVD spins down.
However there are interesting side effects. Opening a konsole window and using
tab completion pauses for a sec
while the DVD spins up again. After konsole (or some deeper layer in KDE) is
satisfied that the DVD in the drive
is still there, my tab completion finishes up. This with the working directory
on the hard drive, not the DVD.
Interesting.
When I move the example fdi to disable checks for all CD/DVD's (since there's
only one anyway) I don't get the pause
issue, but the drive does spin up from time to time (1-5 minutes) to check.
lshal reports my hardware as:
info.product = 'DVDRAM GSA-4084N' (string)
To get the manufacturer as well:
info.product = 'DVDRAM GSA-4084N' (string)
info.vendor = 'HL-DT-ST' (string)
My kernel comes from the buildserver.net archive, to work around some nVidia
nForce issues fixed in 2.6.19+. I don't
think that has anything to do with it, but it does change things as the 2.6.20
kernel has moved pata drives into the
scsi subsystem alongside sata drives. So my DVD is not /dev/hdc, but /dev/scd0.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
ii dbus 1.0.2-1simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.71-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3.4 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libhal-storage1 0.5.8.1-6.1Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libhal1 0.5.8.1-6.1Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-2 userspace USB programming library
ii libvolume-id0 0.103-2libvolume_id shared library
ii lsb-base 3.1-23 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii pciutils 1:2.2.4~pre4-1 Linux PCI Utilities
ii udev 0.103-2/dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii usbutils 0.72-7 USB console utilities
Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii eject 2.1.4-2.1 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
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