[Nottingham] (K)Ubuntu CDROM spindown - how?

Michael Erskine msemtd at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Sep 15 14:08:38 BST 2005


Kubuntu Hoary: CDROM is noisy when inserted and untidy when ejected :)

How does one ask for the CDROM drive to spin down when not in use? hdparm -S 
has no effect on /dev/hdc and gamin (and similar) isn't involved as far as I 
can tell from lsof. I'm running 2.6.10-5-686.

Regards,
Michael Erskine

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