jacqud Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I'm not sure if it's good place to ask it. I build quiet hackintosh. The only thing that is loud is my Samsung F1 HDD 500GB. I use it only for dual boot to Windows to play some games, so I want to disable it to OS X. I wrote script to eject it using diskutils and run it in cron every 1 minute. This is not a perfect solution, OS X wake it fairly often (especally when i turn off the screen. I suspect iStats Menus) and i don't think it is good for disk. Is there any better solution like disable disk on startup that system won't even see it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VirusX Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I'm using this for my old hard drives: http://www.amazon.de/dp/B000FLR8PE/ref=asc_df_B000FLR8PE22471817?smid=A2455DA101VD7W&tag=geizhals10-21&linkCode=df0&creative=22510&creativeASIN=B000FLR8PE&childASIN=B000FLR8PE http://www.amazon.de/dp/B000UVM0OS/ref=asc_df_B000UVM0OS22471820?smid=A2455DA101VD7W&tag=geizhals10-21&linkCode=df0&creative=22514&creativeASIN=B000UVM0OS&childASIN=B000UVM0OS there are more models and manufacturer but you get the idea. Or you get a case to eject the disk completely. maybe there's a way in clover to eject the disk at boot and leave it ejected - maybe ask in the boot loader/clover forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacqud Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 I can buy first one in my country, but I'm concerned... will it work? I have Fractal Design 1000, and HDD is mounted vertically with anti-vibration rubbers that were included in package. Wihtout HDD my PC is noiseless for me. I don't know if it's worth it or I should put some money and maybe replace this HDD with silent 2.5". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VirusX Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 those things can be mounted into 5.25" spots in the case. You have to find out yourself if you can fit that into your case. What do you mean with "will it work"? It will definitely be quieter. If you have some money left over - invest into a SSD before you buy a normal 2.5" hard drive SSDs are silent and super fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacqud Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 Quieter yes, but as quiet as I would want, can't tell OS X is on my 128GB SSD. HDD is only used for Windows + games which I boot maybe once a week and loudness don't bother me there. It would be waste on money to buy 500GB SSD only for that. That's why I would want it to eject on OS X. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Post a pic of disk utility and drawin dumper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacqud Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 I don't know what for, but here you go https://www.dropbox.com/s/2045ndanwos3vyo/Zrzut%20ekranu%202014-11-23%2010.20.18.png?dl=0 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18780140/DarwinDumper_2.9.6_AMI_X64_2976_Yos_jakub.zip Just one thing. System is booted via chimera and -f argument. I recently run on problems with booting, but that is another topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Your osx has chameleon and clover, which one you want it to boot and work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacqud Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 Yeah. Long story short. I had problem with sound popping on Clover. Couldn't found solution and it was so frustrating. After trying many audio kexts I gave up and put [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. It worked fine. I just recently got solution called AntiPop and it solved my problem, so I went back to Clover, but after few restarts my system wouldn't boot for uknown reason. I didn't make any extra changes in kexts nor hardware. I don't really had time to search/ask for the fix. Right know the only thing that helps booting is -f parameter in Chameleon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 You can try to repair permission on kext wizard app. And boot regular to see anything change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacqud Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 Oh, it worked, thanks Now we can back on topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Test with and without at system preferences- Energy saver-put hard disk to sleep when posible. Try w/o cron tab run every minutus that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiethemorris Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Google how to unmount a drive with fstab. I've used it before and it works fine, you shouldn't get any drive noise once it's unmounted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacqud Posted November 26, 2014 Author Share Posted November 26, 2014 I already put this line LABEL=Windows none ntfs ro,noauto in /etc/fstab. Windows partition is not mounting, but drive still spins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 You still have the cron tab running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiethemorris Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I already put this line LABEL=Windows none ntfs ro,noauto in /etc/fstab. Windows partition is not mounting, but drive still spins.that's surprising, I'm pretty sure the HD isn't supposed to spin when it's not being used. Do you have the option in energy saver enabled to spin down hard drives when not in use? Also see if you can maybe do it in fstab by the uuid of the entire drive rather than the partition name. Or there may be some other option that I'm forgetting about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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