30 Nov 2008 (Sun)

17:52:29 # Life Shutting up hal on my CD-ROM drive. Apparently, it's pretty simple to disable HAL polling. I just had to know how. There is a command called hal-disable-pollin, which allows creating the required fdi file.

$ sudo hal-disable-polling --device /dev/hda 
Polling for drive /dev/hda have been disabled. The fdi file written was
  /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_serial_HG02548A.fdi
	

This allows me to not specify irqpoll to the Kernel. irqpoll somehow broke poweroff on shutdown, and reduced speed, this is much better.