Tracking the polling software

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Monday 13 December 2010 07:20:26 pm Nils Kassube wrote:

> sr0 and sr1 are CD/DVD drives and therefore polling these is normal, but
> what are sdb, sdc, sdd? A card reader perhaps or USB sticks?

Yes, a card reader, this info got deleted in my post by error. Sorry.

> As I understand it, the devices are polled to check for a media change,
> like inserting a CD. If you disable polling on all devices, the system
> wouldn't detect if you insert a card to a card reader or if you unplug a
> USB stick. That may be not what you want. OTOH, from your initial post
> it seems you are worried about your hard disk light which is probably
> only lit when one of the CD/DVD drives is polled. Therefore it might be
> an option to disable polling only for sr0 and sr1 if you don't use them
> often.

Until switching to Gnome I used to disable automount of CD/DVD and card 
reader, because KDE 3 had so convenient "link to device" icons. I could do 
that with Nautilus scripts now

> Nils


Thierry