[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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