>>>>> "CCW" == Chad C Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> writes: CCW> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:20:55AM -0600, Robert P. Goldman wrote: >> But I'm running KDE. Does anyone have any idea what in KDE might be >> probing the CDROM all the time? CCW> Yes, KDE has a helper daemon that tries to mount/umount the drives for CCW> the user that's logged in. It may be probing the drive when you click CCW> on the cdrom icon. It's also possible that you may have a status CCW> indicator widget/applet of some kind that's checking these things. CCW> Examine the programs that you're running. Kill one for a while. Watch CCW> your logs. For those who care, I did figure this out. The villain is autorun. And to find this, I did find .kde -type f -exec fgrep -q autorun {} \; -print That found some stupid desktop file which runs autorun all the time. R