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Cooling Neophyte
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Czech republic
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Drive(s) in question - Seagate PATA 200G ST3200822A ones.
Number of them - There. Description of problem - in folding machines, they are mostly idle. Yet each about 45sec or something a self check (or something like this INTO the drive, no IDE activity shown) is started. This generate click noise and such sounds like HDD activity and it is extremely annoying. I did not want to hear these clicks. Otherwise I'm happy with the drives, but I just want this to STOP. Either stop, or return the drive any get another brand that won't click when idle. VERY annoying. Is there a way to make this STOP forever, or one just should not buy any Seagate drivers? Anyone? Affected machines - Any. It simply did not matter on what machine they run, it is always the same. Noise, clicks, noise, clicks... Thanks for letting me know. I just got there these ST3200822A drives, so I either found a solution or return them - Maxtor's did not do such noise, maybe I should just not went to Seagate... Or is there a new firmware or utility available to STOP THIS...? |
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Cooling Savant
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: london, england
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this is their diagnostic software... http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/ iirc Seagate ceased to offer acoustic management on their drives as part of their settlement of a patent infringement lawsuit.... possibly some 3rd party apps may do the job? or a firmware downgrade.... i recently aquired (second hand from ebay) one of the Samsung SP1614N compared to the seagates here.... http://www.silentpcreview.com/article152-page1.html even before i set acoustic management on it to quiet (it had been set for speed) i found it completely indetectible even just sitting loose on a cardboard box (which since it was for upgrading the disk in a PVR i was pretty pleased about... ![]() |
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Cooling Savant
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Portugal, Europe
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My 200G Seagate Sata drive does the same, idle , clickety clickety.
Not much you can do about it, if it bothers you that much, sell it, get another brand.
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Cooling Neophyte
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Czech republic
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Another user says this: Quote:
![]() Now if the change between 7200.8 and 7200.9 is in firmware only and I belive it is, then just using the firmware from 7200.9 into my 7200.7 ones will help! ![]() Anyone have 200G 7200.9 Seagate drive? And who know, how to download and then flash the firmware on drive? ![]() That could be a quick and easy solution! ![]() Anyway, I was wrong. Pictures of 200G Seagate drivers, from left my7200.7 and then 7200.8 type (this one won't click/generate noise in iddle): ![]() ![]() (click to see full size) It is obvious that I was wrong and 7200.7 to 7200.8 is not only a firmware difference, but the PCB id different as well. Probably the number of disks inside are same, but that hardly matters now. So, there is no way to flash no-clicking firmware to 7200.7 from 7200.8 ![]() But there is good news as well. I just find out, that Seagate sometimes send no-clicking firmware, as is written on this forum: http://forums.storagereview.net ...so, attack Seagate now and f*cking demand the damn firmware now! :twisted: PS. I already get suggested to use SysTool http://www.techpowerup.com/systool/ to disable the AAM :lol: Of course, the drives have NO AAM to set or disable ![]() Well, at least ppl's is trying to help. ![]() |
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Cooling Savant
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: london, england
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hmm - a quick google revealed this interesting article:
http://www.behardware.com/articles/4...rd-drives.html if this is correct then the good news is that firmware that will allow AAM to be set does exist ![]() but the bad news is that that on the PATA drives such as yours it is factory set for quiet and so AAM will not solve the problem ![]() |
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Cooling Neophyte
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Norman, OK
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I've run into this problem as well. I noticed the other day that when I run Everest ultimate edition the drive doesn't click. Hope this helps.
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