SATA HD Churning

[Guest]

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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]

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In article <Ct04d.9$8H.6030@news.uswest.net>, "Paul D. Motzenbecker, Jr."
<stargazer.removetheobvious@cavtel.net> wrote:

> 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]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

It can also be caused when INDEXING is turned on.
peter
"Paul D. Motzenbecker, Jr." <stargazer.removetheobvious@cavtel.net> wrote in
message news:Ct04d.9$8H.6030@news.uswest.net...
> 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
>
>