Bug 213995

Summary: hald-addon-storage polling of CD degrades performance of harddrive on Dell laptop
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: quintesse
Component: halAssignee: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: 6CC: defectivelogic, mclasen, triage
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138148
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
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Last Closed: 2008-04-10 00:27:14 UTC Type: ---
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Description quintesse 2006-11-04 12:46:56 UTC
Description of problem:

EXACTLY the same as in this bugreport for FC3:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138148

I have no idea if this is a regression or if it was never fixed. In the report
they talk about black-listing Dell/Laptop CD rom drives but either that was
never done or it was taken out again. (lshal shows that the media check is
enabled for the CD drive)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

hal-0.5.8.1-4.fc

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run hdparm -t /dev/hdb
2. Kill hald-addon-storage
3. Run hdparm again
  
Actual results:

Transfer rate between 8 and 15 MB/s

Expected results:

Transfer rate over 32MB/s

Additional info:

Comment 1 quintesse 2006-11-04 12:46:56 UTC
Created attachment 140352 [details]
Output of lshal

Comment 2 Brian King 2007-02-12 15:42:39 UTC
Created attachment 147903 [details]
lshal output from dell inspiron 8200

Comment 3 Brian King 2007-02-12 15:46:38 UTC
I can confirm this bug is back and affects ubuntu edgy 6.10 as well.
This is using hal 0.5.7.1.

I've attached the output of lshal after trying the past options that would
disable checking of the drive. They no longer seem to stop the probing.

Details on the bug are also on the ubuntuforums at:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2144464&postcount=19

I'd also request that the severity be upgraded to high and that the status moved
to confirmed.
 

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 04:25:08 UTC
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Comment 5 quintesse 2008-04-04 17:40:23 UTC
The laptop is currently running FC7 and I definitely had to manually patch the
rules to disable the media check. But the laptop isn't available to me anymore
so I won't be able to help with testing, nor can I upgrade it to F8 (or newer).

Comment 6 John Poelstra 2008-04-10 00:27:14 UTC
Thanks for the update.