Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 213995
hald-addon-storage polling of CD degrades performance of harddrive on Dell laptop
Last modified: 2013-03-05 22:47:31 EST
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:
Created attachment 140352 [details] Output of lshal
Created attachment 147903 [details] lshal output from dell inspiron 8200
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.
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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).
Thanks for the update.