RE: Hard drive noise
- From: GW <GW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:51:02 -0800
Hi Dil, thanks for your reply:
"Dil" wrote:
I had the same problem. I could feed my Hard Disk's vibration through my
table - especially during file accessing and heavy processing. (They even
produced sounds!)
I had looked into what you mentioned and even added rubber pads in the
mounting brackets w/ no noticeable difference.
I really think that this problem has something to do with the NTFS file
system and the way XP is currently handling it. I remember in the days of
DOS that if you didn't have enough buffers in your CONFIG.SYS your machine
would access the disk really slowly, which could cause the drive to sound
like it was thrashing about... Anybody know if XP have similar settings?
I'm also quite sure that there is NO DEFECT with either of these drives:
- I have run many different diag tools on them w/ no problems shown.
S.M.A.R.T. shows very little wear.
- I *very* rarely have an app crash and when they do it's usually because
of an old app, or too many things going on that strain the OS.
- I never get blue screens.
- ...never had any data loss.
- Up until I put this new mo-board in the drives were whisper-quiet.
"Dil" wrote:
I am not sure I understand how you solved your problem by installing to a
different partition because as far as I know (I may be wrong), partitions are
logical divisions of the hard disk but not physical ones. So if there is a
'vibrating' problem in one partition, it should be present in others too...
I'm aware of some of the overhead involved with using NTFS (logfile,
manifest, permissions, etc.) and have found in the past that, in some cases,
XP does perform better with FAT32. So just for the heck of it, I tried this:
- divided the Maxtor into two partitions, 30Gb and 50Gb
- formatted both with FAT32 (512 byte sectors, 32 sectors per cluster
using Paragon HD Manager)
- unplugged the WD drive
- put master jumper on Maxtor
- new install of Win XP on Maxtor partition 1, leave present FS alone.
- slave WD to Maxtor
- re-size WD primary partition
- create two new primary partitions on WD, 50Gb each
- format each of those w/ FAT32
with that setup both drives are nice and quiet. Booting takes about 2 - 5
seconds longer, nothing extreme.
Another thing that seems strange to me, is that my computer is now using a
lot of MS drivers instead of proprietary ones. I've been to the ASUS, WD,
Maxtor & nVidia websites - downloaded & installed everything they had to
offer. Still, the only two driver files for each drive are DISK.SYS and
PARTMGR.SYS, both from MS. Under "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller"
Device Manager shows driver files ATAPI.SYS, PCIIDE.SYS and PCIIDEX.SYS,
again all from MS. The primary & secondary IDE channels show driver files
ATAPI.SYS and STORPROP.DLL from MS.
On the General tab for each of the drives the manufacturer is shown as
"(Standard disk drives)". The IDE controllers are manufactured by "(Standard
IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)". ???
Shouldn't I have something from one of these other companies?
--
Thanks
Greg
BTW, partitions are physical divisions of a disk if you consider that
partition 0, often called partition 1 these days, is the innermost division -
physically closer to center than all others. Partition 1 (or 2 if you
prefer) is next out, and so on. I guess that they're also logical if you
consider there are no physical boundaries between them and that the logical
boundary can be moved by resizing the partition...
I think one important thing to note is that the drive heads will never move
through cylinders of one partition while accessing data in another partition.
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