On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 23:45 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 15:11 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > > I rarely use the device. What would be the simplest way to safely > > disable it in a start-up script? > > Perhaps > modprobe -r cdrom > but even if this should work, IMO it's better to continue > troubleshooting. Resp. for startup you perhaps can blacklist the module.