I just noticed that my kernel log is filling up with messages that look like this: Feb 5 16:11:10 mn65-zippy kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) My understanding is that this happens because a. someone's repeatedly looking at my cdrom and b. my cdrom mistakenly reports a disk change when it's empty. There's been some kernel traffic about this, reporting that the gnome program magicdev does (a), to see if it should automagically mount the cdrom or run some autostart. Alan Cox suggested just removing magicdev. But I'm running KDE. Does anyone have any idea what in KDE might be probing the CDROM all the time? Thanks, R