When ever I've scene logic board failiers on drives it's usually been no power at all, but hey, who knows. The reason I suggested using usb was so that we could rule out the motherboard and so that if the os was for some very strange reason sending ata commands to power the drive down it wouldn't be able to since you can't do that over usb.
At any rate, storage is really cheap these days, so if you don't mind playing with internals, you could just put a new drive in there and see what happens. Chances are it'll be a 5400RPM drive in there atm, so you will see a performance boost if you go up to a 7200. On 15/01/2011, Mike Arrigo <n0...@charter.net> wrote: > Does this happen on certain macs, I haven't seen it at all with the 3 that I > have. > On Jan 15, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> its not the Hard Disk, per se'. its a driver issue where the drive >> controller is instructed to park and shut down. the only way I have found >> to resolve it is a full reboot by a not so friendly unplug and then power >> on and boot. this forces the on board controller to reset back into proper >> operation. note: a soft boot won't work as the controller state will be >> maintained across the warm reboot. >> >> -Eric >> >> On Jan 15, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >>> Hi folks. >>> I have had this problem a little while now, but i haven't done anything >>> about it as of yet, however it makes me curious. >>> I was listening to some good music in ITunes when all of a sudden the >>> music died, it turned out that something had caused the internal hard >>> drive to just die, the motor had stopped and i don't know of a way of >>> getting it back to life again short of rebooting. What could cause the >>> hard drive to do this? This happens when i use ITunes or µTorrent to get >>> files. Can you strain a hard drive too much? It's not a question of >>> energy saving either since i have the hard drives set to not shut down at >>> all. I'm at a loss as what to do here and i don't want to take the >>> machine to an Apple store since i don't have an AppleCare plan for it. >>> Thanks for any help. >>> /Krister >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
