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.
