[peel] OT:Message for Ed
Ed Blackmore
me@...
Sat Mar 30 02:22:18 CET 2002
> > 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.
Ed
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