Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[s0ulfly]

I updated to the latest CC4H. There is no very loud click for now, but the tweeting are still happens for me.

After one minute of inactivity the HDD makes a 'tweet' and when I'm accessing to the drive again it 'clicks'.

See an example (from 0:58): http://soundcloud.com/hellrage/st2000dm001-issue/s-VWSb6 

It makes these sounds very often when I'm using my PC, makes me really crazy. It never happens on any other of my drives like Hitachi, Samsung, etc.

I woundering why there is no any comments from any officials that 'the issuу are worked on'? So many users are complaining... They can just release a tool like WD did (WDIDLE3.EXE) and makes this 9999 complains gone.

Maybe there is a way to call them or make any other way of contact of just posting on the forum isn't helps?

[ben777]

+1 to making something like WDidle3.exe for Seagate drives to disable APM. I just used it to disable LCC on both of my Caviar Green drives last night and am much happier now with no more clicks and no more astronomically rising LCC, though I probably should have used it before one of them got to over 300,000 LCCs.

[fzabkar]

imyself, did you actually examine the SDRAM chip on the PCB? Otherwise, how did you determine the cache size?

I ask this because there is currently no provision in the ATA standard for a drive to report a cache size of 32MB or greater.

[imyself]

Hi fzabkar,

fzabkar : how did you determine the cache size?

imyself : i do not examine anything, i just read what appear on my Mac system informations :

• Apple from the menu.
• About this Mac”
• More Info…”
• Serial ATA
• Here appear the Seagate HD Barracuda 1To S-ATA III ***But no 64 Mo Cache, But 32Mo Cache***

regards

[Dragonix]

Is there any update on "No controllers found" issue on Z77 motherboards?

I'm trying update my ST2000DM001 firmware from CC4C to the latest one on ASUS P8Z77-V board. I tried both bootable CD and Windows updater and getting "No controllers found" error every time. The chirping sound is very annoying, it's 5 times louder then any other sound my computer makes. 

[Potato]

I'm using P8z77-V too and finally succeeded to upgrade bios.

Before starting, the sata cable should be connected to the ports of Z77 chipset. (Refer to board manual)

The HDDs connected to the sata ports of ASmedia would not be detected in dos mode for firmware update.

Go to UEFI setup (BIOS), change AHCI to IDE mode, and proceed the bios update required (with bootable CD).

Don't forget to change back to AHCI mode after finishing the update procedure.

Good luck.

[ChaosMar1ne]

Any news on when we're going to get Firmware fix that CC9C owners can use ?

[Dragonix]

Thank you Potato, it worked like a charm.

[Exiton]

Upgraded without problems.

AMD 990XA chipset, AHCI mode, boot ISO.

[fzabkar]

imyself, Apple is wrong. The following article explains why.

Detecting Buffer or Cache Size in ATA Hard Disk Drives:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/203631en/?q=203631