Re: Hard drive does not appear on OS X

Bill WIlson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:28:41 -0700
"Mark Duling" <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> gkrellm 2.2.9 seems to work well except for my hard drive does not show
> >> up.  My fujitsu CD-ROM drive does.  My HD is /dev/disk0s3.  What can I
> >> check to see why?  Thank you.
> 
> Oh I'm dreadfully sorry; I was mistaken.  The Fujitsu drive is my HD after
> all.  The problem is that I can't get any data to show in its graph by
> copying a few hundred MB from one place on the HD to another.  But if a
> pop in a CD and copy a comparitively small amount of data from the CD to
> my HD I see a nice spike in the graph.  I've tweaked with the settings but
> it doesn't seem to change anything.

You still need to check /proc/diskstats to find out what's going on.  Do this:

  $ cat /proc/diskstats > somefile
do the HD copy test
  $ cat /proc/diskstats >> somefile

and then we can see what the problem is.

This is assuming you run a 2.6 kernel which has /proc/diskstats.  If not,
what do you get when you run "gkrellm -d 1"?  And if you run a 2.4 kernel,
replace /proc/diskstats above with /proc/stat.

Bill


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