From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Bowler Subject: Re: T500 cdrom drive never stops spinning until mount. Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 09:04:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20100513130448.GA1967@elliptictech.com> References: <20100512023549.GA22623@cpu18.student.cs> <4BEB4FA3.70308@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BEB4FA3.70308@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Hancock Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 19:02 Wed 12 May , Robert Hancock wrote: > Is something like hal, devicekit, etc. accessing the drive in this case? > Can you try a minimal boot with no unnecessary processes and see if the > same thing happens? Good call, booting with init=/bin/zsh and sure enough, the cd drive spins down. Looks like udev is causing the constant spin-ups, so I'll post to linux-hotplug instead. Sorry for the noise, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)