Re: which process is writing to disk?

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> hi guys,
>
> i sometimes see the following happenning on my notebook. every few 
> seconds, i can hear a tick from the harddrive. it seems, that some 
> process writes just a little bit to disk and the heads are immediately 
> parked. the sound is quite annoying. it doesn't happen all the time, 
> just sometimes.

It may be the drive itself doing a recalibration. Modern drives, when
idle, do a recalibration of the head position every few minutes.

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Mike
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