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.
"X" causing disk activity?
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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.