Hi, im forwarding this bug since it is udev ata_id that is causing it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=556635 (i hope its ok to do it this way) verified myself on debian sid but with custom kernel 2.6.31.2: udev 146 ata_id: ================ # ./ata_id /dev/hdb TSSTcorpCD_DVDW_TS-L632B_95RB404055 # ./ata_id --export /dev/hdb ID_TYPE=cd ID_BUS=ata ID_MODEL=TSSTcorpCD_DVDW_TS-L632B ID_MODEL_ENC=TSSTcorpCD\x2fDVDW\x20TS-L632B ID_REVISION=TM31 ID_SERIAL=TSSTcorpCD_DVDW_TS-L632B_95RB404055 ID_SERIAL_SHORT=95RB404055 udev 147 ata_id: ================ # ./ata_id /dev/hdb -> rw media gets blanked completely (like wodim -blank=all) .. which is particularly annoying when you are booting of it .. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html