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Old 03-04-2005
SCO 5.05 hard drive pulsing constantly
Just recently my hard drive has started to pulse like data is being read or written constantly. Causes?
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Old 03-09-2005
Without more information - anything. Look at this troubleshooting guide and see what you can find. Follow the instructions in it.
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Old 03-21-2005
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Originally Posted by RTM
Without more information - anything. Look at this troubleshooting guide and see what you can find. Follow the instructions in it.
Looked and cannot find anything that looks obvious. I did a ps -el and deleted a bunch of processes that I though might be causing this. Nothing changed as I killed them. I rebooted machine and it was quiet all Friday after that. Started machine today and is pulsing again.
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