Daimajin Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 First off, here's my setup: CPU: C2D e6600 Mobo: P5B-Deluxe wifi GPU: x1800GTO (Flashed to XL) RAM: 1GB DDR2 mushkin PSU: 600W OCZ gameXstream The hard drives in my system are my OSX drive (80GB SATA), WinXP drive (250GB SATA2) and a data drive (250GB SATA2). My data drive was originally a dynamic-disk and ntfs support isn't a happy thing so I decided that I'd format it and set it to be FAT32 so that I'd be able to move data easily between boots. So I transfered my stuff off it which took a good hour, then formatted in disk director, booted and tried to put my data back on. What happened next is the weird part. When I dragged my stuff back onto the data drive, it started going fine but every ~200mb the disk would stop spinning, you'd hear it stop and nothing would happen. It took around 8 hours to move the data back on. I tried to watch a video on it and half way through the video just stopped for 30 seconds or so then started again. Does anyone know what I can do about this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35949-hard-drive-stops-activity/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 not sure if this will help, but might as well check. go to system prefs -> energy saver -> and uncheck 'put hard disks to sleep' option at the bottom. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35949-hard-drive-stops-activity/#findComment-255787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daimajin Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 I already tried that, but thanks for the suggestion. I'm desperate for solutions at this point hahah. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35949-hard-drive-stops-activity/#findComment-255792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 What version of OSX are you running? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35949-hard-drive-stops-activity/#findComment-255795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daimajin Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 Sorry, completely forgot to write that. I'm using 10.4.8 with mifki kernel. On another note, I just did a reboot and the drive took maybe 3 minutes to mount. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35949-hard-drive-stops-activity/#findComment-255796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proteo Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 I had a similar issue. Once in a while, one of my disks was randomly stopping, while I was working on the computer. I could hear the "clong of death" and the OS freeze for a moment, until the disk started to spin again. Not sure about the reason, but what I did was to change the position of the power cables and it solved the problem. Before, I had two hard disks sharing the same line in the source power (by this, I mean that my source power has two main lines, each one with two 12v ATA connectors and one 5v floppy connector). Now, I have one hard disk attached to each line, and the issue has never happened again. Just my two cents. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35949-hard-drive-stops-activity/#findComment-255799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daimajin Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 That sounds like some pretty solid reasoning. I'm going to test that out since I'm pretty sure that I have everything feeding off of one line. I'll give a heads up if that fixed my problem since I imagine that would fix the mounting time at boot too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35949-hard-drive-stops-activity/#findComment-255800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 (edited) Try removing a couple of unnecessary kexts. The first is probably installed. The second is probably removed, but check anyway. Follow the HWSensor and TPMACPI links in my signature. As always, after messing with kexts, delete the Extensions.mkext and Extensions.kextcache files and reboot. If that fails to help, then look at some logs. Go to the Utilities folder and find Console. Run it and click the Logs button in the left side of the toolbar. Study the system.log and console.log for repetitive errors that may be slowing things down. Edited December 15, 2006 by Rammjet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35949-hard-drive-stops-activity/#findComment-255802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daimajin Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 (edited) Thanks proteo. Your solution worked great! I never thought of it as a problem because for some reason windows never gave me problems with that. I'm just going to do another boot to confirm everything worked out but I'm pretty sure this fixed the problem. Rammjet thanks a lot for your suggestion too. If this doesn't work on boot I'll give yours a shot. Edit: Everything looks great now. Thanks to everyone for the quick replies. Even my xbench scores went up Edited December 15, 2006 by Daimajin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35949-hard-drive-stops-activity/#findComment-255808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proteo Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Yes, I had no problems with Windows either. Actually, I didn't have this problem before updating to 10.4.8. My guess is that now that more kexts are being used, some energy-related functions in the OS are having minor issues with non-Apple hardware. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35949-hard-drive-stops-activity/#findComment-255815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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