Doesn't seem to affect anything and I don't notice the drive trying to eject during boot. From dmesg: . . VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k freed cdrom: open failed. Adding 2097136k swap on /dev/hdc2. Priority:-1 extents:1 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 6 . . ReiserFS: hdd1: checking transaction log (hdd1) ReiserFS: hdd1: Using r5 hash to sort names cdrom: open failed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
same error here
This is coming from your kernel, not udev. You can safely ignore it.