Bug#308603: Reproduced
I can reproduce on a Z71A laptop. My friend has an identical machine
running 3.4 and the same problem. He gets the problem with Linux 2.6.14,
I get it with 2.6.12. The workaround works, but that's not a very good
workaround.
Christopher, you're probably not experiencing the problem simply because
your LED ignores optical drive activity.
As Christopher said, it would be nice to know whether this was fixed is
newer upstream releases.
The severity is either normal or important, but several things make this
bug problematic:
1. A flashing light is annoying.
2. A light flashing without reason can turn attention away from a light
flashing with a reason...just like my laptop's low battery indicator,
which probably explains that I didn't notice that my laptop was going to
shutdown a few days ago.
3. Most people will probably be like me and believe at first that some
hard disk activity is happening, worry that this can use their drive
prematurely, and try to find the issue. AFAIK there are no good ways to
find the source of disk activity under Linux, so people are not going to
find this bug easily and may spend a lot of time on it. It's fairly easy
to find that KDE is causing it, but not against which package the bug
will be assigned. And if they find the report, the workaround for 1. and
2. is not that good.
4. This happens on default setup for affected machines.
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