Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 05:49, eric huff wrote: About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
Ok, got my computer runnin again... About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. It could be swap, could be even gKrellm itself reading the drives - have you

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. It does help. Reiser accesses the drive about every 5 seconds to update it's journals. I had the same question when I

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 07:46, eric huff wrote: About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. It does help. Reiser accesses the drive about every 5 seconds to

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
My light flashes about every 10 seconds - but I've also disabled FAM as a service, and tweaked my EIDE drives with hdparm - but it's a quick blink and nothing major - nothing ever skips a beat - even when doing something disk intensive. Both EIDE's are ReiserFS, both SCSI's are ReiserFS. And

[newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-14 Thread eric huff
About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. Thanks, eric Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 02:49:13 -0700 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. Run top and just watch for what might be acting up (should appear at the top of the list every 4 or 5 seconds). Also check for any cron jobs

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 19:49, eric huff wrote: About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 19:49, eric huff wrote: About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS,

[newbie] harddrive ???

2002-09-11 Thread jbarron201
If they were the same price,same size 5400 rpm are 7200 IBM .Which would work best for me??I,m running Mandrake only on this system 950 duron,320 MB ram,voodoo 3000 video.I,ve alway used W/D and there is a sale at a fair price but I,ve never had a 7200 rpm are a IBM .Is it noticeable ? I,ve heard

Re: [newbie] harddrive ???

2002-09-11 Thread Jason Guidry
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 20:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they were the same price,same size 5400 rpm are 7200 IBM .Which would work best for me??I,m running Mandrake only on this system 950 duron,320 MB ram,voodoo 3000 on that system the bottleneck will be the hard drive, so yes, you will

Re: [newbie] harddrive ???

2002-09-11 Thread Jon
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:31:26 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they were the same price,same size 5400 rpm are 7200 IBM .Which would work best for me??I,m running Mandrake only on this system 950 duron,320 MB ram,voodoo 3000 video.I,ve alway used W/D and there is a sale at a fair price but I,ve

Re: [newbie] harddrive swap

2002-01-14 Thread Mohammed Arafa 2 Mailing Lists
, January 13, 2002 8:37 PM Subject: [newbie] harddrive swap Hi everyone, Right now, I have Linux Mandrake installed on Computer2 (PII-266 256MB Ram, etc) and Win2000 installed on Computer1 (Athlon 900 512 MB Ram, etc). My question is, I know windows can handle it if you take the harddrive out

[newbie] harddrive swap

2002-01-13 Thread Rich, Anthony D (UMR-Student)
Hi everyone, Right now, I have Linux Mandrake installed on Computer2 (PII-266 256MB Ram, etc) and Win2000 installed on Computer1 (Athlon 900 512 MB Ram, etc). My question is, I know windows can handle it if you take the harddrive out of Computer1 and put it in Computer2 and boot to it. It

Re: [newbie] harddrive swap

2002-01-13 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 13 January 2002 12:37, you wrote: Hi everyone, Right now, I have Linux Mandrake installed on Computer2 (PII-266 256MB Ram, etc) and Win2000 installed on Computer1 (Athlon 900 512 MB Ram, etc). My question is, I know windows can handle it if you take the harddrive out of

Re: [newbie] harddrive swap

2002-01-13 Thread mike
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 13 January 2002 12:37, you wrote: Hi everyone, Right now, I have Linux Mandrake installed on Computer2 (PII-266 256MB Ram, etc) and Win2000 installed on Computer1 (Athlon 900 512 MB Ram, etc). My question is, I know windows can handle it if you take

Re: [newbie] harddrive swap

2002-01-13 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 13 January 2002 14:25, you wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 13 January 2002 12:37, you wrote: Hi everyone, Right now, I have Linux Mandrake installed on Computer2 (PII-266 256MB Ram, etc) and Win2000 installed on Computer1 (Athlon 900 512 MB Ram, etc). My

[newbie] Harddrive Access

2000-07-03 Thread John Rye
I know this problem has been covered previously but I cannot find the references. Attached is my /etc/fstab. I need to ne able to: A: Allow all users to access (read and Write) the Windows drives. Currently they are advised they don have any permissions. B: Be able to read/write the

Re: [newbie] Harddrive Access

2000-07-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote: I know this problem has been covered previously but I cannot find the references. Attached is my /etc/fstab. Mine: /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb3 /d vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 Yours: /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0

Re: [newbie] Harddrive Access

2000-07-03 Thread J D
i beleive if you use "chmod", you can change the permissions of all your harddrives. but i'm not sure how to do it, at least for your computer. hope i helped a little. jd From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Harddr

Re: [newbie] Harddrive Access

2000-07-03 Thread John Rye
John Rye wrote: snip B: Be able to read/write the floppy drive in both filesystems Right now no user can read or write the drive at all. This includes the superuser. Message returned is: Could not list directory contents file:/mount/floppy /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy

Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem

1999-10-27 Thread Yifan Yu
Still having trouble with the drive. I don't have a install disk, I have a CD burned with the ISO image. I do remember reading somewhere about that the 2.2.x kernels still don't support ATA66 controllers yet, it's being worked on in 2.3, so won't come out till 2.4 or something like that? I

Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem

1999-10-27 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Yifan Yu wrote: Still having trouble with the drive. I don't have a install disk, I have a CD burned with the ISO image. I do remember reading somewhere about that the 2.2.x kernels still don't support ATA66 controllers yet, it's being worked on in 2.3, so won't come

Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem

1999-10-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: Still having trouble with the drive. I don't have a install disk, I have a CD burned with the ISO image. I do remember reading somewhere about that the 2.2.x kernels still don't support ATA66 controllers yet, it's being worked on in 2.3, so won't come out

Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem

1999-10-27 Thread Ken Archer
How? On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: just tell linux there are 3rd, and 4th ide chains and off ya go. Ata66 is supposed tobe fully backward compliant, so it will pick them up as normal ide. -- Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 Powered by

Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:50:03PM -0700, Yifan Yu wrote: Is there a way to find out what address I should use? Also, when I tried the boot option, it says ide2 is an invalid option. Do you already have Linux installed on this machine? You can find information about the controller in

Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem

1999-10-23 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:50:03PM -0700, Yifan Yu wrote: Is there a way to find out what address I should use? Also, when I tried the boot option, it says ide2 is an invalid option. Do you already have Linux installed on this machine? You

[newbie] Harddrive problem

1999-10-22 Thread Yifan Yu
Hi, when I tried to install Mandrake 6.1, it cannot detect any harddrive. I have a 27.3 GB Ultra ATA with ATA 66 controller card. Is this problem due to this type of HD being to new or something and is not supported yet? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem

1999-10-22 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Yifan Yu wrote: Hi, when I tried to install Mandrake 6.1, it cannot detect any harddrive. I have a 27.3 GB Ultra ATA with ATA 66 controller card. Is this problem due to this type of HD being to new or something and is not supported yet? Any help would be

Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem

1999-10-22 Thread Steve Philp
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Yifan Yu wrote: Hi, when I tried to install Mandrake 6.1, it cannot detect any harddrive. I have a 27.3 GB Ultra ATA with ATA 66 controller card. Is this problem due to this type of HD being to new or something and is not supported yet?

Re: [newbie] harddrive installation

1999-04-06 Thread Manny Styles
Could someone please direct me to an alternate site to download the "MV" file for harddrive installation? The site that was posted to the list before went down Thank you in advance, Manny Styles NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet.