[TriLUG] Its broke and I gotta fix it

[Rob Carlson]

Your problems probably are hardware,  but I've been woken in the middle 
of the night by my HD whiring, and it turned out to be updatedb running. 
 (This is what allows you to run "locate")  check your root crontab.  su 
- root, crontab -l... Curious if the time for it's running is the time 
you heard the whirring.  Quite a few distros put updatedb in crontab by 
default...