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by steve

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Hi guys, I have a Windows 2K Advanced server, which is doing absolutely nothing except functioning as a test DC in an AD network - no other role. Every 5 minutes or so, the floppy seeks for a few seconds -its just done it now and its driving me crazy!! Nothing interesting from system monitor - any ideas about what it might be, or where to start looking. Its sitting right in front of me and I'm starting to get obsessed, waiting for it!!
Thanks in advance,
Steve

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by joseph moore

I am not sure on the random access, but have you tried disabling the floppy drive to see if it keeps doing it?
Try opening up Device Manager, select the floppy, and choose Disable.
Then see if it keeps doing this.
Now, this should stop it from going off every 5 minutes, but it does not fix the problem.
At least this way, you will be able to sleep at night without thinking of that little green light flashing on and off all by itself!

by matt duggan

Take a note of the CPU time reported for each thread in Task Manager just before it's due to seek again. Immediately after the next seek, take another screen dump of the thread list. It's not much to work with, but it might get you pointed in the right direction for which thread is annoying you.

by timthetoolman

Hi,

Just to add to Joseph's answer... disable the drive as per his suggestion and then check the event log to see if an application has complained about not being able to access it...

Cheers,
Tim.

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