Periodic Disc I/O at approx 1 sec

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From: danman (danman_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:47:04 -0800

My system drive is showing I/O activity approximately once a second as though
there were some keep alive heart beat was running. It prevents the drives
from going into a power down. I've play with about everything I can think
of, e.g. turning off indexing, etc. to no avail.

Anyone have any ideas?

- Dan