But first you'll need to download Peter Borg's shareware program Lingon 2.1.1 (the last version before development was halted). But luckily, you don't need to follow them exactly. The included instructions are geared toward Unix geeks, and they don't all work with the latest version of Leopard. On the Mac, the key is Bryce McKinlay's tiny shareware program hdapm. But meanwhile, you can turn off the head parking yourself. This kind of hard drive is still relatively new, and hopefully Apple will tackle the problem in Snow Leopard.
If your drive has gone through thousands or hundreds of thousands in a short time, you're in trouble. Hard drives are rated for only a few hundred thousand of those. How can you tell for sure if your drive is affected? Download a shareware program like smartctl or Volitans Software's Smart Utility and look for the load cycle count. Upgraders get more - or less - than they bargained for. Apple modifies the firmware of drives it supplies to avoid this problem, but no one does that for the speedier, larger replacements. On Macs, this is often found in replacement drives for the MacBook and the Mac Mini. Even when this isn't loud enough to annoy the user, it causes excessive wear and premature aging of the drive. That's because this kind of drive will park its head after only seconds of inactivity - and then the computer immediately calls it back into action.
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Energy-efficient hard drives that are optimized for Windows can cause incessant clicking as annoying as a water drip when used with Unix-based systems like Mac OS X or Linux on a computer that's idling.
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