At 08:51 PM +0100 04/01/2004, Alan Gentle wrote:Although I've no applications loaded, just the Finder and an empty desktop, my Hard Drive has begun to thrash away for a second or so every 10 to 20 seconds. Nothing has been wittingly changed. Any ideas? It's a 7300/180 with PowerLogix 350Mhz/G4, 512Mb, OS 9.2.1, USB/Firewire/ADSL and not networked in any way.
Sherlock's auto indexing?
Anti-virus perusing?
Background defragger?
The 10000rpm 34gb HD in my 9600 makes a distinct 2-tone whine every 58 seconds or so and has done since new. No autoindexing, no antivirus, no defragger...
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