unfortunatelly on my ST31000340AS new firmware does not solve the problems. earlier version of SD1A worked better in terms of "clicks and strange sounds". Actually this solves problem of interrupting transfers but clisk remain and ata shows zero features (windows manager won't allow to enable cache)
Field Value (Everest 4.60)
ATA Device Properties
Model ID ST31000340AS
Serial Number 6QJ0534H
Revision SD1A
Device Type ATA
Parameters 17684 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors per track, 512 bytes per sector
LBA Sectors 17825795
Buffer Unknown
Multiple Sectors 16
ECC Bytes 4
Max. PIO Transfer Mode PIO 3
Max. UDMA Transfer Mode Not Supported
Unformatted Capacity 8704 MB
ATA Device Features
48-bit LBA Not Supported
Advanced Power Management Not Supported
Automatic Acoustic Management Not Supported
Device Configuration Overlay Not Supported
DMA Setup Auto-Activate Not Supported
General Purpose Logging Not Supported
Host Protected Area Not Supported
In-Order Data Delivery Not Supported
Native Command Queuing Not Supported
Phy Event Counters Supported
Power Management Not Supported
Power-Up In Standby Not Supported
Read Look-Ahead Not Supported
Release Interrupt Not Supported
Security Mode Not Supported
SMART Not Supported
SMART Error Logging Not Supported
SMART Self-Test Not Supported
Software Settings Preservation Not Supported
Tagged Command Queuing Supported
Write Cache Not Supported
