every time I have had tapping sounds from a disk, a hardware failure has happened soon afterwards. I strongly suggest you do a thorough back up as a first step.
It depends what you mean by "tapping" .... On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Bruce Badger wrote: > I'm running a Woody system (installed from the SLUG/Debian CD, needless > to say :-) ), and there is something going on that is causing the disk > to be constantly accessed. It's like a constant tapping sound as the > disk is being hit. > > 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? > > Thanks. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
