On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 10:45 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 11:58:50PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Hal doesnt mount anything by itself.... > > maybe you are refering to gnome-volume-manager, which interacts with > > hal to mount storage devices and deal with removable media when > > inserted.. assuming you are running gnome. My understanding is, at > > Hal polls devices and that is enough to screw up USB burners sometimes, to > break ide burns if there are two drives on the same bus one burning one being > probed, and other stuff. > That would *really* surprise me. Remember: when polling on optical drives, hald uses O_EXCL and that should make open(2) fail with EBUSY if someone else has opened that device O_EXCL - and all cd recording software in the Fedora distribution should do that otherwise it's a bug. So, assuming that hald gets EBUSY on attempting to open with O_EXCL, why should that interfere with the hardware at all and thus break them? Cheers, David