First SATA Drive

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I just installed a SATA controller and drive into a P4 with an Intel
D845GRG motherboard (if that makes any difference.) The OS is a fresh
installation of XP. Most of the time, I can hear the SATA drive reading
and/or writing. (I started to say ticking, but it's not the same tick
that you hear before a drive is getting ready to die.) The sound reminds
me of the old recalibration routines that drives used to include.

Indexing is turned off. The computer has no viruses and no spyware.
There are no applications running in the background or foreground that
should be accessing the hard drive. Do SATA drives recalibrate?

I ran Seatools on the drive, and it passes all tests.
 
mcp6453 said:
I just installed a SATA controller and drive into a P4 with an Intel
D845GRG motherboard (if that makes any difference.) The OS is a fresh
installation of XP. Most of the time, I can hear the SATA drive reading
and/or writing. (I started to say ticking, but it's not the
same tick that you hear before a drive is getting ready to die.) The
sound reminds me of the old recalibration routines that drives used
to include.
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Is the HD led on at the time or not ?
Indexing is turned off. The computer has no viruses and no spyware. There
are no applications running in the background or foreground that should
be accessing the hard drive.
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XP does do quite a bit of drive activity after a clean
install, basically optimising where stuff is on the drive.
Do SATA drives recalibrate?
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All drives recalibrate. Some do it more loudly than others.
I ran Seatools on the drive, and it passes all tests.
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Post the SMART data obtained with Everest.
 
Boot your machine to BIOS only. Listen to your SATA drive. Does it produce
the same sounds when there is no OS running?
 
Previously mcp6453 said:
I just installed a SATA controller and drive into a P4 with an Intel
D845GRG motherboard (if that makes any difference.) The OS is a fresh
installation of XP. Most of the time, I can hear the SATA drive reading
and/or writing. (I started to say ticking, but it's not the same tick
that you hear before a drive is getting ready to die.) The sound reminds
me of the old recalibration routines that drives used to include.
Click to expand...
Indexing is turned off. The computer has no viruses and no spyware.
There are no applications running in the background or foreground that
should be accessing the hard drive. Do SATA drives recalibrate?
Click to expand...
I ran Seatools on the drive, and it passes all tests.
Click to expand...

Too hot?

Arno
 
Peter said:
Boot your machine to BIOS only. Listen to your SATA drive. Does it produce
the same sounds when there is no OS running?
Click to expand...

I just booted to Windows 98 floppy, and the drive is still making this
ticking sound. It must be bad. It will be interesting to see if Seagate
agrees.
 
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