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  1. Bug #379780
  2. Comment #89

Comment 89 for bug 379780

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AmadeuS (sarelgrin) wrote :

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)