Re: Hard drive stops/starts every minute

From: Rock (rock_at_comcast.nospam.net)
Date: 08/09/04

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    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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