In message <20050107042053.GA14387@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>you write: >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 as root and with haldaemon stopped it behaves the same. strace shows that it's in a loop, it does a brk, then about 30 ioctls and repeats. brk(0x9528000) = 0x9528000 ioctl(19, CDROM_SEND_PACKET, 0xfefa0110) = 0 ioctl(19, CDROM_SEND_PACKET, 0xfefa02a0) = 0 ioctl(19, CDROM_SEND_PACKET, 0xfefa02a0) = 0 ... steve > >> 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. > >