Thank you but there is no reasonable way we can investigate a bug report that requires a rather uncommon hardware configuration and only occurs in unspecified circumstances.
If you want to know what component is causing access to /dev/sdb, I can only think of using strace -f. ** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- vlc sometimes wakes sleeping harddisks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/681933 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs