On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:39:02PM -0800, steve_dum@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > If I put a dvd in my drive, fire up k3b and ask for disk info k3b goes away > for 7 minutes -- SEVEN MINUTES -- and then comes back and and shows the disk > info. Same disk on a RH 8 system comes back in a few seconds. Does it do the same as root. Does it do the same if you stop haldaemon first. (I'd be suprised if either make a difference but just to be sure). If it doesn't then strace might give clues as to what is being slow > The above is a specific behavior, but in general reading or writing dvd's > takes forever. Drive worked fine under FC1. > > Reading/writing cd-r media doesn't show these excessive delays but also > is slower than under FC1. While waiting, the drive activity light tends to > be either off, or occasionally blinking, but not constantly busy. Interesting. The reading side I could believe was hal or similar but I don't understand why it would mostly hit DVD. We really don't do much different for the two cases.