On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 00:02, Boyce Griffith wrote: > >Boyce Griffith wrote: > > > >>I'm having an issue with Fedora Core 1 on an IBM > >>ThinkPad A31. When I am logged into an account, the > >>hard disk access light blinks continuously. The > >>flashing is very regular and brief (there is about a > >>2 > >>second delay between flashes). > > After poking around some more, it seems that the > offending processes are autorun for KDE and magicdev > for Gnome. > > It looks like when autorun checks for a new CD, it > accesses the filesystem in such a way as to cause the > disk access light thing to come on... This wouldn't > be a big deal, except that the flashing light makes > enough of a sound to be extremely irritating. > What does a flashing light sound like?
