Re: Hard drive stops/starts every minute
From: Rock (rock_at_comcast.nospam.net)
Date: 08/09/04
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Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 22:18:09 -0700
Just D. wrote:
> All,
>
> The second hard drive working on the second IDE controller stops and starts
> approximately every minute. It's very annoying especially keeping in mind
> that the second device on the same controller is used by RW-DVD and these
> ON/OFF affect the CD/DVD writing. How can I make this hard drive always
> working if BIOS switched to ALWAYS ON, Savers on laptop are also don't allow
> to disable the hard drive or computer. What's going on there? Can this hard
> drive disable itself regardless the Windows XP Professional settings? Or
> it's a WindowsXP bug?
>
> The latest service packs are installed.
>
> Dmitri.
>
>
>
It's not a good idea to have a hard drive on a secondary channel with an
optical drive. Put both hard drives on primary, optical drives on the
secondary.
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