Irritating disk noise ...

[Tony Alfrey]

On Thursday 06 May 2004 03:08 pm, 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).

Hmmmm. . . . . . .
I, too, have SCSI drives (4 to be exact).  On my box, this is called the 
"disk is dying" noise, in much the same status as you describe.  
Replaced one on Monday.  Maybe not the situation you're having, but be 
cautious.



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