reanes

I've noticed that the HAL daemon causes disk activity every 2 or 3 seconds, but only if the disk is a scsi disk. Also, the KDE media manager (in KDE components) causes disk activity as well. I have two Mandriva systems. The one without scsi does not have disk activity, even with HAL and KDE media manager running. The one with a scsi disk constantly has disk activity unless I stop the KDE Media Manger and stop the HAL daemon. Then the disk activity stops. So it appears that the disk activity is connected to scsi disks.