Re: Thousands of erroneous syslogs about media changes

["SN_Diamond" <Norman.Diamond@example.com>]

Takeshi Hakamata replied to me:

> > 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.

You are right, it is magicdev.  Do you know why those syslogs didn't occur
under kernel 2.2.16?  CDs were mounted automatically before, so I think
magicdev was running before.

Sincerely,
Norman Diamond
Norman.Diamond@example.com