On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:16:27PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > Another more straightforward option is of course to poll more than once > a second so the drive never goes into power saving mode and thus never > jams the bus :-). No, seriously, it would best not to poll as well, but > we do need the media change notifications. If you poll a lot you'll then have fun with the drives too dumb to cache the TOC. I don't think there is one solution here, it probably requires blacklisting the small number of problem drive types