Not necessarily a Mother board. There is a logic board within the HD itself that is most likely the culprit here. I would do as Eric suggested but maintain a good backup routine as these symptoms could be the lead-up to bigger problems with the drive.
Later... On 2011-01-15, at 1:22 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: > So if this can't be addressed by a new driver, it's sounding more like > a motherboard fault? > > On 15/01/2011, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@gmail.com> 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. > Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- 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.
