Dear All,
Thanks for your all additional info. Find out it is really the harddisk
being overloaded. Not sure what cause it. But I already split out the files
to different harddisk. Right now, Home Drive, Mail, Shared Folder all in
different harddisk. Doing manual raid.

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CL
"Manimoto" <manimotomushi@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Feb 13, 12:22 am, "CL" <c...@screamx.com> wrote:
> > Dear Guys,
> > My Slackware hdd is blinking non-stop & is very slow. Is it possible for
me
> > to see what process is causing it?
> > ...
> CL:
> Have you figured out the cause yet?
>
> If not, I assume you've tried using "top", etc to figure what process
> is causing it, but nothng came up. Then try the following approach:
> Bring machine into telinit 1 state.
> If you have any partitions on HD that you can unmount (like /home)
> umount them - you won't be able to unmount / and /usr.
> See if problem persists. If it does, then run "lsof" on the device
> example: lsof /dev/hda. This will tell you what files are being used
> at the moment.
> there should *not* be many at all. Then try to make sense of the
> results or post them here.
>
> If there is no problem in telinit 1, then go into multiuser mode as
> usual but "go slow" :-)
> Don't log in as yourself (i.e. don't go into X/KDE/Gnome whatever),
> but login as root and see what files are being used. Again try to make
> sense of it or post here. Try to remove services and add them back
> again to try to isolate the cause.
>
> In other words is the HD doing that all the time even from the moment
> pc is booting up in BIOS, or is there a later time at which it begins?
> I would try to figure out at which point the HD light starts doing
> what you describe.
>
> Of course all this may be academic because maybe your HD is about to
> go ballistic. In which case....have you backed up?
>
> good luck
>