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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I am trying to transfer all of BL2 (tar/gzip all the files into one large 
temp.gz) to transfer to a new hard drive (in a computer where the old one 
is hopeless and even crashes a low-level formatting 2/3 of the way 
through).

At /proc/bus/pci/00/07.3 the tar process stalls and I cannot exit with 
Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Alt-Del.  This happened twice.  On the one remaining 
working computer there is no such file but there are a bunch of other 
files in that directory with similar names, all 256 bytes, all today's 
date.  Are these temporary files that I could safely delete?  I don't find 
info in my big linux book about this.

Both computers do have a 00.0 with different md5sums.

Does anyone know why the computer where we replaced the hard drive and 
reformatted a new one played Fur Elise endlessly after that until I turned 
it off?  Is there some way to turn off a PC speaker via software?  It has 
done this on other occasions.  Perhaps a joke on the part of a designer?

Sindi