I have a Dell XPS L501X laptop dual-booting Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" (x64) and Windows 7. It has a TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L633J DVD drive, which generates a lot of vibrations and noise whenever data is being read through it.
While booting into Linux, somehow the DVD drive is polled/accessed thereby creating a nuisance. Now, I can think of several ways to disable this drive once Linux is booted, but I need some way to disable it during the boot.
Following are the approaches that I have tried (and failed):
hal-disable-polling
: This command stops polling once Linux is booted.cdrom.ko
: Came across this in many blog posts, but I simply could not find this file at the mentioned location.- BIOS: My laptop's BIOS hasn't got any option to disable the DVD drive.
What else can I do to disable the DVD drive?
I am using Linux Kernel 3.0.0-26-generic. Windows 7 boots just fine.
udisks
resp.udisks2
was the culprit. I fought it for some time, and finally settled on modifying theudev
rules (soudisks
is never invoked). That may also work during boot, if you make sure the modifiedudev
rules end up in the boot image. Though if the access is due to a device reset during boot, that won't help.modprobe.blacklist=cdrom
)?