weird noise

[trevor fields]

Hi guys.

If this is a problem with the kde file manager searching/indexing all the 
drives AND you dont use your floppy, have you tried removing the floppy 
drive from the cygwin environment?  This is done by editing the registry 
(dont try it if you have never done this before)

Hope this helps.

Trevor

Daryl Phipps wrote:
> Hi.  If you're experiencing the same problem I am, that noise you're 
> hearing is probably your floppy drive.
> 
> Ben Anderson wrote:
> 
>> this may be more of a question for IBM, but hopefully somone else has 
>> the same problem.  When I launch KDE(full) , my computer starts making 
>> weird noises and so I just abort.  It may not be a problem - it's just 
>> I'm at work.  This noise it makes seems to be the same noise as when I 
>> do this:
>>
>> banderso at DEVCPM7R /cygdrive
>> $ ls
>> c  f  g  h  i  j  k  p  t  w  x  z
>>
>> The other letters are mapped network drives.
>> this is the only way I've regenerated the noise.  And it only works on 
>> this directory.  Maybe it's searching for more drives - I don't know.  
>> When I do the above command, It pauses for a few seconds makes the 
>> noise(but only briefly) and then displays.
> 
> I think the brief noise is normal behavior.  I _think_ it's cygwin 
> scanning your floppy drive to see if its accessible under the cygdrive 
> directory.  This happens on my computer, and in windows explorer, it 
> will do the same thing if you click the floppy drive when it's empty.
> 
>> When I've tried to launch KDE - it doesn't stop making the noise.  I 
>> know the X Server works fine, becuase I use that.  Anyways, I know 
>> this is a weird thing, but it seems like it happens when it's querying 
>> the machine to see what hard disks are present.
> 
> I'm sure this wasn't supposed to happen, and I honestely don't know if 
> it hurts the drive or not.  I have never heard a floppy drive make its 
> noise as loud or fast as mine does now when I run KDE.  Then again, this 
> is still a new computer for me, so it could just be a naturally louder 
> drive.
> 
> Anyway, I figured I'd at least tell you that I am having the same 
> problem, and so is someone else that posted on 9/03/03.  They never got 
> an answer, but I hope we will.
> 
> Daryl Phipps.
> 
> 
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