Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hal
/var/log/kern.log is full of: sdb : READ CAPACITY failed. sdb : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 sdb : sense not available. sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through sdb : READ CAPACITY failed. sdb : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 sdb : sense not available. sdb: Write Protect is off Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through sdb: unable to read partition table and again for each of 'sdc', 'sdd', 'sde'. Only 'sda' (the main laptop disk) is present on the system. The checks are occuring once *per second* for each of the disks. Possibly this is because of something like 'hald-addon-storage' checking for presence. There appear to be ten copies of 'hald-addon-storage' running. ** Affects: hal (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Confirmed -- 75MB kern.log fill of "READ CAPACITY failed." (hald-addon-storage probing) https://launchpad.net/bugs/58349 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs