Quoting Bruce Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 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.

Maybe its a cron item being ran? what happens it you stop cron, and say at 
from running.
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