can one of you MS experts tell me what routine/process is at work polling drives ~ every 2 min or so?
I know the status of the drive... don't need the OS checking it so much
hey, you changed your avatar... trying to fool us all???
best I can determine from OCD thread-searching, what makes it annoying is the way the particular drive/firmware responds to the request. in this case the Samsung/tsst drive will light up its head and its noisy. that's all. just one of those things that is not really necessary since I sorta know whether I need the drive or not :)
I have not gotten around to stopwatch-ing it yet to see if its timed accurately but my sense is, yes. its about 3 minutes apart, regularly.
Mmm. I don't know......I could understand if the drive has a disk in it, but not when empty. Is it perhaps a Samsung utility doing that?
This describes it very well, sadly.
HP envy M6 and Pavilion G6 - empty optical drive randomly ac... - Page 3 - HP Support Forum - 2332677
Also the third entry explains but doesn't id the process! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r286...Latitude-E6530
Would your system by chance have a burn process waiting and be looking for the disc to burn to.
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