SATA HD Churning

[Paul D. Motzenbecker, Jr.]

Fellow Newsgroupies,
Greetings and hallucinations from just north of Fantasy Land (Washington,
DC)!
I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe with a Maxtor SATA 160 GB drive. The system is
running Windows XP Home. The hard drive freqently churns. Yes, I have
installed the latest drivers from Asus and Silicon Graphics for the
controller. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
Peace,
Paul

 

[Paul]

Fellow Newsgroupies,
Greetings and hallucinations from just north of Fantasy Land (Washington,
DC)!
I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe with a Maxtor SATA 160 GB drive. The system is
running Windows XP Home. The hard drive freqently churns. Yes, I have
installed the latest drivers from Asus and Silicon Graphics for the
controller. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
Peace,
Paul

If you are referring to access happening roughly once per
second, I've read that can be cause by Windows search for
removable media. Apparently there is a control
panel somewhere to disable it.

Try looking here under "autoplay"
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_a.htm

If your accesses are not once per second, then define "churns"
a little better for us

HTH,
Paul

 

[peter]

It can also be caused when INDEXING is turned on.
peter

 

[Muerta]

Fellow Newsgroupies,
Greetings and hallucinations from just north of Fantasy Land (Washington,
DC)!
I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe with a Maxtor SATA 160 GB drive. The system is
running Windows XP Home. The hard drive freqently churns. Yes, I have
installed the latest drivers from Asus and Silicon Graphics for the
controller. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
Peace,
Paul

Greetings Paul from the social pelvic region of the U.S., Chicago.

I have the same setup as you only I put in 2 Maxtor SATA 160's in non-raid
config, on a A7N8X-E deluxe.

I installed XP pro, and all my usual bloated software, didn't get to pruning
for a couple of days.

HDD would churn every time I farted in it's general direction. I finally got
in and did my usual shut down of all resident crap that loads at startup,
and it quit.

I have found that a lot of software has "phone home" features, checks for
this, checks for that, backs itself up. MS Office Suite drove me to drinking
*more* and I finally switched to Open Office.org. Quiet HDD's now.

Just one more suggestion to check.