Steve Snyder wrote:
>After a whole 3 days of using CentOS 4 I see that there is more activity
>on my unused CD-ROM drive than there is on my lightly used hard disk.
>(As indicated by the number of interrupts on the ide0 and ide1
>controllers.)
>
>It seems some process is polling the CD-ROM drive to determine if there is
>a disk in it. My CD-ROM is hardly ever used after the initial OS
>installation, so it makes no sense for me to have the constant polling
>going on.
>
>What process is polling my CD-ROM drive and how can I stop it?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
It's probably autofs. A 'man autofs' shows that it's a filesystem
auto-mounter. in CentOS 4, if you look in the /etc/auto.misc, you'll
see that the cd is set up to auto-detect and mount whenever you put a CD
into the drive. You have two ways to disable this:
1) turn off the autofs:
# chkconfig autofs off
# service autofs stop
2) Stop autofs from seeing the CD:
- Comment out the cd entry in /etc/auto.misc and then
# service autofs reload
HTH,
Ben
