Re: Hard drive stops/starts every minute

Tech Tip: Click here to run a free scan for Windows Errors and optimize PC performance

From: Just D. (no_at_spam.please)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:14:14 -0700

Hi Rock,

Thank you for the suggestion, but properly you have not read the original
message - it's LAPTOP!-)

Just D.

> > 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?

> 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.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: HDD Compatibility
    ... and new larger drives appear in the ... BIOS Upgrades ... available expansion slot and then connecting your hard drives to it. ... than having to connect them to the controller card itself. ...
    (alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt)
  • Re: Origin of hard drive parameters
    ... origin of the hard drives parameters i.e. geometry, ... that CHS,> as you say, is arbitrary when referring to modern drives. ... disk is stored on the disk. ... and Inquiry commands you are accessing data stored on the ...
    (freebsd-questions)
  • Re: HDFMTPH versions for Atari 8-bit hard drives
    ... These notes cannot/do not replace the MIO owner's manual. ... The MIO can only use hard drives with 256 byte sectors. ... The RLL Adaptec controller is the ACB-4070. ...
    (comp.sys.atari.8bit)
  • Re: Mass Coruption with Downloaded Installations
    ... ESC at one point) is *not* the method for a clean install! ... upgrading to SP3 without applying a particular patch first is ... external hard drives, printers, etc.) and configure a Clean Boot ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: RE Excessive Hard Drive activity.
    ... and have had Service Pack 3 install misfires, ... Had problem installing SP3 because of AMD CPU. ... I have two hard drives installed with partitions ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)