S Sim wrote:
Hello,
A similar problem was discussed here http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Feb/2225.html and I can paste the description verbatim, but the solutions proposed did not work for me: "I seem to remember several here complaining about their hard drive led blinking about every 5 seconds and seeing a solution to it as well. I don't remember when those mails come out, so don't know which month to look for them in the Archives."
I have Suse 9.2 on a Dell SmartPC 250N laptop. It appears that something is written to/read from the hard drive every few seconds (2-5). When I boot in failsafe mode, i.e. without the X and KDE, no such disk activity is observed.
Does anyone know how to stop this strange disk activity?
Thanks,
Sergei
I was the one who first raised the issue and in my case I finally traced it to a program in Win4Lin; Win4Lin solved that problem for me. However, others had similar 5-second "flashes" with Patrick Shanahan (Hi Patrick) saying that it was to do with having to update to the newer copy of cups while PL O'Smith traced is his "flashes" to KDE. (None of these applied to my situation.) These latter discussions took place around 20 February 2003 under the Subject Heading of "Blinking HD lite" (which is not the Subject of my messages which resulted in Win4Lin being the culprit for me). Cheers. -- "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously."