On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:14 +0000, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Nope. It is silent in booting, and, I think, faster. If I then close the > CD tray, while the machine is still running, it gronks once.
Most likely your BIOS probes the drive at boot-up, even if you don't have it in the boot order. That's normal, and I doubt you can disable it. The sound may indicate a hardware issue with the drive, however. Regards, Tyler -- "... jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you’re trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them." -- Noam Chomsky, in "Understanding Power" -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
