Re: Thousands of erroneous syslogs about media changes

[Takeshi Hakamata <tkh@example.com>]

> kernel: <7>VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
> 
> Thousands of times.  And the longer the machine stays up, the more
> thousands.  There is no CD in the drive.  Where is this coming from?

I had this problem before. If you use gnome, see if the process called
'magicdev' is running and kill it. It is polling CD-ROM to see if a
CD is inserted or not. You can disable magicdev by unchecking
'mount CD automatically' in gnome control center.


Takeshi