From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 20:45:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA19934 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA19927 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA09768; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:45:59 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:45:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Shon Frazier cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HD spin In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960604154523.00678f70@pop.atl.mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Shon Frazier wrote: > I've successfully installed and can run FreeBSD on my machine. I have > noticed though that about a minute after login, my hard disk comes on and > stays on. Hard disk access doesn;t seem hindered by this. Is this a problem? I've noticed something similar, it sounds like it's slowly scanning the disk. I think it's the swap system. Nothing to worry about though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major