Re: Curious about other methods to detect hard drive access

2008-08-06 Thread Ron Johnson
Please don't hijack other threads. On 08/06/08 10:36, Stackpole, Chris wrote: [snip] The thing that got me thinking was, if this was a process generating this disk I/O, or someone being malicious in generating this disk I/O, I would not have known which file was actually being accessed as I on

RE: Curious about other methods to detect hard drive access

2008-08-06 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: David Ayers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Curious about other methods to detect hard drive access > > Am Mittwoch, den 06.08.2008, 10:36 -0500 schrieb Stackpole, Chris: > > The thing that got me thinking was, if this was a process generating > > this di

Re: Curious about other methods to detect hard drive access

2008-08-06 Thread David Ayers
Am Mittwoch, den 06.08.2008, 10:36 -0500 schrieb Stackpole, Chris: > The thing that got me thinking was, if this was a process generating > this disk I/O, or someone being malicious in generating this disk I/O, I > would not have known which file was actually being accessed as I only > found out th

Curious about other methods to detect hard drive access

2008-08-06 Thread Stackpole, Chris
I had an interesting problem (very minor, less of a problem and more of a curiosity) earlier this morning and while I did solve it, I am curious as to if there are better methods and how others might have solved it. So I thought I would ask. On my top Gnome desktop panel, I have the "System Monito

Re: hard drive access

2005-10-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 06 October 2005 22:15, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >This past Saturday my main workstation at home quit on me. > Unfortunately this happened while I was away for the day. When I > arrived home the system was beeping (a continuous cycle of 1 second > beep followed by 4 seconds of silence

Re: hard drive access

2005-10-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > disagreed with me and referred me to the motherboard manufacturer (Biostar). :-) > Their tech support said that the beep code indicated either a dead CPU or a > corrupted BIOS. After I explained that removing the RAM, CPU and video card >

hard drive access

2005-10-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
This past Saturday my main workstation at home quit on me. Unfortunately this happened while I was away for the day. When I arrived home the system was beeping (a continuous cycle of 1 second beep followed by 4 seconds of silence). Originally, I thought it was a failed power supply. Antec tech