[ltp] Issues with t23 debian etch netinst

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:40:03 +0200


On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:47:58 -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

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> 3. I'm also getting little noises from this computer that I didn't get 
> before--don't know if that's due to the netinst or not. They are pretty 
> hard to describe: sort of a quiet click but not like a repeated banging or 
> anything. I was concerned enough to take it back to the place that 
> installed the new hard drive and they decided that hard drive was 
> defective. But now I've reinstalled and am getting the same little sounds, 

What filesystem did you use before? Maybe ext2? And now ext3 in Etch?
Then it may be the ext3 journal that is written every 5 seconds per
default.

Regards,
Tino