prevent optical drive check when wake from sleep

[catachip]

Is there any way to prevent the optical drive from making that clunky sound every time I restart my MacBook Pro or wake from sleep? It's not really necessary, at least for me.

 

[yippy]

Yes, don't have a disk in it. Otherwise, no.

 

[seanneko]

Yes, don't have a disk in it. Otherwise, no.

Mine does it even when the drive is empty.

 

[PhatBoyG]

Mine does it empty too, sort of annoying actually now that you mention it.

 

[zephead]

I've always wondered about this too. Anyone?

btw: No CD in drive = clunky sound. CD in drive = no clunky sound, but the longer sound of the disc spinning up.

 

[yippy]

Oh, that sound, I thought you were talking about CD spin-up. But still, no there is no way to prevent it. It is necessary in order to check if there is a CD in the drive when you wake up the computer. You wouldn't like it if you put a CD in your drive before waking it up and then when it woke up the computer didn't recognize the CD now would you?