This update adds information I have previously reported in a thread on ubuntuforums.org:
hald on edgy still behaves badly on an Inspiron 8200 here. I've found that it does *not* work to stop hald from polling the CD-drive and stop blocking the IDE-channel by adding filters in /etc/hal. It does however work if I add the rule in /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/10-ide- drives.fdi. I haven't yet examined the source for hald to figure out why blacklisting the device through config-files in /etc doesn't have the same effect as changing the vendor-file in /usr/share/hal. The problem was introduced through a CVS update in october 2005. A copy of the diff is attached. Reversing this diff and then restart hald solves the problem. The system will not detect changes to the CD-drive with the blacklist entry in place, but having to mount manually is much preferred over crippled IDE performance. ** Attachment added: "HAL blacklist-entry removal diff" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5907427/hal-fix-remove_blacklisted_HL-DT-STCD-RW.txt -- hald blocks ide bus if cdrom on same bus with harddisk(was:Extremly slow IO performance with dapper, high wa% on Dell Inspiron 8200) https://launchpad.net/bugs/48499 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
