HDD LED pulsing/flashing every second - any cure?

[NoOp]

On 12/18/2009 01:57 AM, Ardo Gorria wrote:
> I am using Ubuntu 9.10 in a fairly standard configuration on an Asus
> P5KPL-CM motherboard. I have one WD SATA HDD and one Samsung SATA SH-S223
> DVD drive.
> 
> In addition to normal HDD activity the HDD LED is pulsing about one a second
> when the computer is 'idle'. I Googled and the consensus is, that the DVD is
> being checked for the insertion of a disk about once every second. Sure
> enough, I have tried disconnecting the SATA DVD and the LED pulsing stops.
> 
> In view of the above I guess that the pulsing is probably normal as the
> driver is checking the DVD for disk insertion but I am curious if there is
> any way to stop the flashing from happening?
>

Can you provide the output of:
$ ps aux | grep devkit-disks
and
$ apt-cache policy devicekit-disks