[Bug 58349] 75MB kern.log fill of "READ CAPACITY failed." (hald-addon-storage probing)

[Paul Sladen]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: hal

/var/log/kern.log is full of:

sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
sdb : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 
sdb : sense not available. 
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
sdb : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 
sdb : sense not available. 
sdb: Write Protect is off
Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: unable to read partition table

and again for each of 'sdc', 'sdd', 'sde'.  Only 'sda' (the main laptop
disk)  is present on the system.  The checks are occuring once *per
second* for each of the disks.  Possibly this is because of something
like 'hald-addon-storage' checking for presence.  There appear to be ten
copies of 'hald-addon-storage' running.

** Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Confirmed

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75MB kern.log fill of "READ CAPACITY failed." (hald-addon-storage probing)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/58349