Michael Lake wrote:

Bruce Badger wrote:

...How can I find out what process is accessing the disk? Is there a cool
monitor out there that I can use to find out?

... run `ps ax` and `top` and see what there is running.

Michael,

Thanks for that. I had tried ps & top, but this did not seem to point to the culprit process. I was hoping for a tool that would show explicitly what processes were hitting on the disk - there are such things for Solaris & NT.

The disk itself is fine (I think!) - there is no tapping when I use RH7.3 or even W98 (the games OS). Also, each "tap" sounds like a bit of head movement, and the disk light flashes - hence my guess that a process is up to no good somewhere.


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