Precision M70 Hard Drive Noise/Thick

Question

Hi,

I have an M70 before i had an Inspiron 8200, but seems the noise is a costant for the hard drive.

Hd Hitachi travelstar 60 Gb 7200 is the same for the two systems.

In windows xp pro, it seems to access to the hard drive continuosly and the system freeze a little,

The noise is very annoying.

In the past with 8200 i solved installing the Intel Application Accelerator 2.2 and setting the hard drive to Maximum performance.

This setting take away immediately every noise, because (i think) it prevents the heads to go in the park position every 2 second.

Now Intel Application Accelerator doesn't support anymore the chipset.

I have read of same problem for M60.

Now i'm trying to install Windows on a new Hard drive, the same model (travelstar 60 Gb 7200),

to exclude a defective drive (i don't think so, but...)

I think the solution is on the POWER SETTING,and not on the Acoustic managment.

Stay tuned, i will post my results.

Message Edited by trally on 03-05-2005 05:45 AM

Message Edited by trally on 03-05-2005 05:47 AM

trally · Answer

Ok, I have reinstalled on the other Travelstar 60 Gb 7200 and...

NO TICK AT ALL.

So? Where is the problem? Firmware? I have to investigate...

The only thing I notice is date of manufacture : AGO04 ---> NO TICK JAN05---> TICK

But, i f i connect the JAN05 drive to external USB2 rack NO TICK AT ALL.

trally · Answer

Miss a think, for whom hasn't the floppy drive, how to use the feature tools: Download Features tools from Hitachi site. Download Virtual floppy drive from http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html Downloa USB key format from http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html   Enable the visibility of all file (hidden,and system) Enable the virtual floppy drive. Setup Hp format utility Setup feature tools pointing at the A:\      'virtual drive' Copy all the files from the A:\ to a folder on you desktop. From Windows resurces select A:\ and Format with create a dos bootlable disk. Launch Hp format utility. Select create bootable disk and insert in the path of the dos image A:\ Now copy all the files from the folder you have created before on the desktop on the USB. Do not overwrite command.com On the USB key open Config.sys edit all like A:\ in C:\ On the USB key open Autoexec.bat edit all like A:\ in C:\   Reboot. Press F2 Edit boot sequence in USB CD-ROM HD   leave the USB key in and you will see the IBM tools load with mouse support.   Greets.

trally · Answer

So i have downloaded the IBM Feature Tools and enabled the Acoustic managment in the JAN-05 Drive. Now it is more more quite but if you hear well, there is some tick. On the other drive, no tick at all. So the problem can be the firmware. Or the first partition from Dell, where there is installed the diagnostic tools. Hope this help.   Greets.

trally · Answer

ok some new info:

HD AGU-04

Model:
Firmware:
Serialno:
LBA support: yes
    LBA sectors: 117210240 (= 55.89 GB)
Disk cache size: 7877 KB
Supported UDMA modes: 0-5
Current UDMA mode: 5
Acoustic Management support: yes
    Acoustic Management enabled: yes
    Current Acoustic Management value: 0x80 (= quiet)
    Recommended Acoustic Management value: 0x80 (= quiet)
SMART support: yes
    Temperature support: yes

HD JAN-05

Model:
Firmware:
Serialno:
LBA support: yes
    LBA sectors: 117210240 (= 55.89 GB)
Disk cache size: 7877 KB
Supported UDMA modes: 0-5
Current UDMA mode: 5
Acoustic Management support: yes
    Acoustic Management enabled: no
    Recommended Acoustic Management value: 0x80 (= quiet)
SMART support: yes
    Temperature support: yes

FIRMWARE IS DIFFERENT AND ACOUSTIC MANAGMENT IS DISABLE IN THE ONE WITH THE PROBLEM.

w00ters · Answer

@trally wrote:

Miss a think,

for whom hasn't the floppy drive, how to use the feature tools:

Download Features tools from Hitachi site.

Download Virtual floppy drive from http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

Downloa USB key format from http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html

Enable the visibility of all file (hidden,and system)

Enable the virtual floppy drive.

Setup Hp format utility

Setup feature tools pointing at the A:\ "virtual drive"

Copy all the files from the A:\ to a folder on you desktop.

From Windows resurces select A:\ and Format with create a dos bootlable disk.

Launch Hp format utility.

Select create bootable disk and insert in the path of the dos image A:\

Now copy all the files from the folder you have created before on the desktop on the USB.

Do not overwrite command.com

On the USB key open Config.sys edit all like A:\ in C:\

On the USB key open Autoexec.bat edit all like A:\ in C:\

Reboot.

Press F2

Edit boot sequence in

USB

CD-ROM

HD

leave the USB key in and you will see the IBM tools load with mouse support.

Greets.

trally-

thank you very much.

trally · Answer

Of nothing, it was a pleasure. I hope this help you and all who have the same problem. See you.

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