On 19:02 Wed 12 May , Robert Hancock wrote: > Is something like hal, devicekit, etc. accessing the drive in this case? > Can you try a minimal boot with no unnecessary processes and see if the > same thing happens? Good call, booting with init=/bin/zsh and sure enough, the cd drive spins down. Looks like udev is causing the constant spin-ups, so I'll post to linux-hotplug instead. Sorry for the noise, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html