Irritating disk noise ...

Joel Hammer joel
Mon May 17 12:02:03 PDT 2004


Could this be something you are logging?

Joel

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:08:56PM -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
> I have a box sitting here with dual SCSI drives and FC1 on it. 
> Something is regularly poking at the hard drives so I'm constantly 
> having to listen to this:
> 
> bumpety-bump.......bumpety-bump.......bumpety-bump.......
> bumpety-bump.......bumpety-bump.......bumpety-bump.......
> bumpety-bump.......bumpety-bump.......
> 
> Interval is about 5 seconds or so.
> 
> Is there any nifty tool that will tell me what process is the culprit 
> that won't leave the disks alone (the box is  utterly idle).
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
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