Unending zip drive access after today's updates

[Gerry Tool]

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 13:07 -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:35 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:30:18AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
> >  > I updated by FC5T2 system this morning. After reboot to the new kernel,
> >  > the system continuously accessed a zip disk in my zip drive, hdb4.  I
> >  > finally rebooted and ejected the disk, starting again without it in
> >  > place.
> >  > 
> >  > After boot, I inserted the disk and a normal amount of activity ensued
> >  > to recognize the disk, but it will not mount.
> >  > 
> >  > Anyone else see the same thing?  What should I bugzilla this against?
> > 
> > The kernel is just doing what someone asked it to.
> > I'll bet it's hal probing it.  Does it stop if you 'service haldaemon stop' ?
> > 
> > 		Dave
> > 
> No, that does nothing to stop the activity.
> 
> [root at fc5t2 ~]# service haldaemon stop
> Stopping HAL daemon:                                       [  OK  ]
> 
> Thanks for replying.
> 
> Gerry
> 
I noticed today that on reboot, the thrashing 
of the zip drive starts when udev is starting.

Gerry