[peel] OT:Message for Ed

[Ed Blackmore]

> > > I've a fast computer but still 
> > > sometimes annoyingly 'clicks' (HDD I/O overloads?). 
> > 
> > Just noticed this in the Archive - this is probably teaching you to 
> > suck eggs but I had a similar problem and solved it by regularly 
> > defragmenting my hard drive. The clicking seemed to happen when the 
> > HDD had to make a big skip to the next bit of free space/sector 
> > whatever
> 
> yeah, i have fixed it before by defragging, using an empty volume. 
> but sometimes it won't go away, I wonder if I have a bad IDS 
> cable or something, really annoying.
> 

databases on the brain, I meant IDE.

Ed
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