autorun / magicdev issue? [Was: Blinking Disk Access Light]

[Bret Hughes]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 00:02, Boyce Griffith wrote:
> >Boyce Griffith wrote:
> >
> >>I'm having an issue with Fedora Core 1 on an IBM
> >>ThinkPad A31.  When I am logged into an account, the
> >>hard disk access light blinks continuously.  The
> >>flashing is very regular and brief (there is about a
> >>2
> >>second delay between flashes).
> 
> After poking around some more, it seems that the
> offending processes are autorun for KDE and magicdev
> for Gnome.  
> 
> It looks like when autorun checks for a new CD, it
> accesses the filesystem in such a way as to cause the
> disk access light thing to come on...  This wouldn't
> be a big deal, except that the flashing light makes
> enough of a sound to be extremely irritating.
> 

What does a flashing light sound like?