[Bug 379780] Re: CD-ROM polling on some Optiarc drives causes high CPU usage

[AmadeuS]

For those like me, who have no idea what to do with udev rules, here are
step by step intructions to fixing this problem:

hit alt+F2 for command line (or open a terminal if you prefer).


paste this command for gedit to open the rules file with root: 
# gksu gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules


Paste these lines at the end of the file to add the udev rule (provided by Martin Pitt on #72):
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_VENDOR}=="Optiarc*", ENV{ID_MODEL}=="*AD-7640S*", \
      ENV{UDISKS_DISABLE_POLLING}="1"

Save & restart udev (sudo restart udev).

That's it.

I am extremely disappointed by the way this bug was treated. The optiarc
cd-rom and dvd drives can be found on many laptops and the high cpu-
usage is a real issue. Instead of addressing this problem as a real bug
and releasing an actual solution we were presented with a lot of non-
user-level data and a problem bypass that doesn't really give an
ordinary person the ability to fix the problem.

So much for "Linux for human beings" ... (Again, Extremely disappointed)

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CD-ROM polling on some Optiarc drives causes high CPU usage
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379780
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