[CentOS] HAL Daemon failure on boot up

I've been having a problem for a while:  when booting, haldaemon will 
fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and floppy drives available.

Has anyone else had this kind of problem?  If so, can anyone suggest a 
solution?

Thanks for listening,

Dick

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