[ale] magicdev

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Wed Dec 12 09:58:46 EST 2001


On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Cor van Dijk (nav) wrote:

> I noticed on another machine that something ("magicdev"?) pokes at my
> scsi host adapter while I am  burning a cd on  the scsi cdwriter which
> is attached to that host  Result: coaster!

# rpm -e magicdev

will solve all your problems.  It's a polling daemon that lets gnome know 
when removable media changes, in theory.  In practice, it just seems to 
break stuff (like much of the rest of gnome ;-).

later,
chris


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