hald reading block devices

[Russell Coker <russell coker com au>]

The latest version of hald wants to read all block devices of the 
form /dev/hd? .  Why is this?  Can we make it stop?

I would prefer not to grant read access to the hard disks in the SE Linux 
configuration (it means that an exploit on the hald would grant access to all 
data on the machine).

Also one of my machines is logging the following repeatedly:
Aug 23 20:31:14 community kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x50
Aug 23 20:31:14 community kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Aug 23 20:31:16 community kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Aug 23 20:31:16 community kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x50
Aug 23 20:31:16 community kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Aug 23 20:31:18 community kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Aug 23 20:31:18 community kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x50
Aug 23 20:31:18 community kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Aug 23 20:31:20 community kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Aug 23 20:31:20 community kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x50
Aug 23 20:31:20 community kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Aug 23 20:31:22 community kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Aug 23 20:31:22 community kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x50
Aug 23 20:31:22 community kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Aug 23 20:31:24 community kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Aug 23 20:31:24 community kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x50
Aug 23 20:31:24 community kernel: cdrom: open failed.

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