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At 12:09 AM 10/26/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Mike Smith writes:
> > The wd driver times the operation out and retries it.  AFAIR most 
> > operations are tried at least 3 times before giving up.
>
>And in -current, the driver now waits longer (10s) before the first
>retry, eliminating those nattering errors.

I can not figure out why my HD is spinning up so frequently.  I set the
time down to 1 minute, with no one logged in, only process other than
defualt but sshd, and the system still reads.  There's 48megs of RAM, so I
can't immagine it needs to swap.

Is there a way to determine what is using my harddrive?

Michael