singularity2006
10-23-2003, 05:34 PM
Aight, I have an old maxtor 6GB drive that came w/ a Dell GX110 I use here @ work. I recently upgraded with an ultra ata 133 card and added a new 40GB boot drive. I kept the original 6GB as storage.
HERE's the wEIRD THING!!
I originally kept the 6GB Maxtor on the onboard IDE assuming it would never use full bandwidth anyway, since it probably couldn't. But just for kicks, I switched it over to the second channel of the ATA card.
For some reason, the 6GB now reads as a 7GB.
For some reason, when I lookup records in my software package that I use to manage ID images, which is on the Maxtor drive, the drive makes a loud click noise and sounds like it's spinning up. It's as if it's constantly spinning down into low power and kicking back up every time I index a record. The click and spin up noise also happens on shut down and startup..... really weird. The heck is going on?
HERE's the wEIRD THING!!
I originally kept the 6GB Maxtor on the onboard IDE assuming it would never use full bandwidth anyway, since it probably couldn't. But just for kicks, I switched it over to the second channel of the ATA card.
For some reason, the 6GB now reads as a 7GB.
For some reason, when I lookup records in my software package that I use to manage ID images, which is on the Maxtor drive, the drive makes a loud click noise and sounds like it's spinning up. It's as if it's constantly spinning down into low power and kicking back up every time I index a record. The click and spin up noise also happens on shut down and startup..... really weird. The heck is going on?