multislot cardreader and hald

[Andriy Gapon]

When I connect a USB multislot cardreader (CF, SD, etc) with only one
card inserted to my computer my /var/log/messages gets spammed with the
endless reports like the following:
kernel: Opened disk da1 -> 6
kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): SCSI Status: Check Condition
kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): NOT READY csi:0,aa,55,41 asc:3a,0
kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): Medium not present field replaceable unit: 1
kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): Unretryable error
kernel: Opened disk da2 -> 6
kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): SCSI Status: Check Condition
kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): NOT READY csi:0,aa,55,41 asc:3a,0
kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): Medium not present field replaceable unit: 1
kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): Unretryable error
kernel: Opened disk da3 -> 6

These reports are for the empty slots.
If I disable hald these messages get printed only a few times, but with
hald this happens endlessly, apparently every 2 seconds.

I am curious if this is hald itself or KDE acting through it.

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Andriy Gapon