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Message-ID: <4BEB4FA3.70308@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 19:02:27 -0600 From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com> To: Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: T500 cdrom drive never stops spinning until mount. On 05/11/2010 08:35 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > The ThinkPad T500 has a SATA cdrom drive attached to an Intel ICH9M/M-E > SATA ACHI controller. Upon inserting a disk into this drive, if sr-mod > is loaded, the disk will never stop spinning by itself: it will spin up > to full speed, then start slowing down, but just before it stops, it > will spin up to full speed, then start slowing down, ad infinitum. > > If sr-mod is not loaded, the disk stops spinning right after insertion. > It is only possible to remove sr-mod when the disk is spinning at full > speed (all other times the module is in use), and then the disk stops. > > Mounting the disk also causes it to stop spinning (and it remains > stopped after unmounting it). > > I see this behaviour with both 2.6.32 and 2.6.34-rc7. 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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