Unending zip drive access after today's updates
Gerry Tool
gstool at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 9 19:07:49 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:35 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:30:18AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
> > I updated by FC5T2 system this morning. After reboot to the new kernel,
> > the system continuously accessed a zip disk in my zip drive, hdb4. I
> > finally rebooted and ejected the disk, starting again without it in
> > place.
> >
> > After boot, I inserted the disk and a normal amount of activity ensued
> > to recognize the disk, but it will not mount.
> >
> > Anyone else see the same thing? What should I bugzilla this against?
>
> The kernel is just doing what someone asked it to.
> I'll bet it's hal probing it. Does it stop if you 'service haldaemon stop' ?
>
> Dave
>
No, that does nothing to stop the activity.
[root at fc5t2 ~]# service haldaemon stop
Stopping HAL daemon: [ OK ]
Thanks for replying.
Gerry
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