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Ron21 Author

Level 1

5 points

Upgraded to WD2500BEVS Hard drive, makes clicking noise..

Hey,

I recently upgrade my hard drive in my macbook to a WD 250GB SATA drive.

the problem I'm having is that every few seconds of inactivity the hard drive sounds like it 'parks' it's head.

The SMART status of the drive is verified.

Apparently this is the solution :

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/stdadp.php?p_faqid=1414&p_created=1138984716&psi

But I'm obviosoly on a mac running osx with no floppy drive, so does anyone know how to apply that patch? Thanks.

Message was edited by: Ron21

Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Nov 8, 2007 8:21 AM

133 replies

Ron21 Author

Level 1

5 points

Nov 13, 2007 8:24 AM in response to Ron21

Am I missing something here? I can't get the declunk app to install. Here is what I get when I run install.command :

Copying launchd item to /Library/LaunchDeamons...
cp: declunk.plist: No such file or directory
Copying application to /usr/local/sbin...
cp: declunk: No such file or directory
Starting declunk...
Installation finished.
logout

Stipey

Level 1

0 points

Nov 13, 2007 8:41 AM in response to Ron21

Are you executing it directly from the zip? Seems that it is not finding the binaries to copy.

Ron21 Author

Level 1

5 points

Nov 13, 2007 9:02 AM in response to Stipey

No, I extracted the files into a folder.

Nov 13, 2007 9:02 AM in response to Stipey

Just to chime in. I upgraded my MacBook to the same drive. Bought from BestBuy, installed on Saturday, fresh install of Tiger, been working it over extensively since because this post had me worried. Drive is completely silent, even more so than the original 80gb I pulled out. Here is its specs WDC WD2500BEVS-00UST0 Revision: 01.01A01. I know this doesn't help your situation much but wanted let you know the drive is functioning correctly with my configuration.

Ron21 Author

Level 1

5 points

Nov 13, 2007 9:18 AM in response to Scott Gillett

WDC WD2500BEVS-00UST0 thats the same as mine which was originally in a external enclosure.

I guess the model number makes no difference.

Stipey

Level 1

0 points

Nov 13, 2007 10:22 AM in response to Ron21

Ron21 try in a Terminal:
sudo ./install.command

I can try installing tiger in other partition, and see if it is Leopard related.

Ron21 Author

Level 1

5 points

Nov 13, 2007 12:22 PM in response to Stipey

I still get this :

Copying launchd item to /Library/LaunchDeamons...
cp: declunk.plist: No such file or directory
Copying application to /usr/local/sbin...
cp: declunk: No such file or directory
Starting declunk...
sudo: /usr/local/sbin/declunk: command not found
Installation finished.

Stipey

Level 1

0 points

Nov 13, 2007 1:12 PM in response to Ron21

The script is not seeing declunk binary and declunk.plist.
When you unzip the folder, are you seeing the files?

Nov 14, 2007 3:34 AM in response to Ron21

@ron21

Try this:
-create a folder on your Desktop and call it

Nov 14, 2007 7:47 AM in response to Ron21

@ron21

Try this:
-create a folder on your Desktop and call it

Nov 14, 2007 7:48 AM in response to Francois Blues

I used quotes in my previous post and I think that is not possible. I am working on a new version of the post

Nov 14, 2007 8:12 AM in response to Ron21

@ron21
Try this:
-create a folder on your Desktop and call it 'declunk' (without the quotes)
-copy all files from the "Declunk-1.0.dmg" to the declunk folder you created on your Desktop
-Start terminal and type: cd Desktop/declunk (type: 'ls -la' (wo the quotes) to check if you see all the Declunk files)
-type: 'sudo ./install.command' (again, wo the quotes and enter your password when prompted.
-This should work......

Ron21 Author

Level 1

5 points

Nov 14, 2007 9:05 AM in response to Francois Blues

Thanks finally got it to work. Does it start automatically at login?

Message was edited by: Ron21

Ron21 Author

Level 1

5 points

Nov 14, 2007 6:49 PM in response to Ron21

Well I'm happy to say that the declunk app works perfectly! Obviously this isn't the fix that I would have preferred but it gets the job done! Thank to everyone.

Nov 15, 2007 6:31 AM in response to Ron21

Glad to hear that's working for you Ron, but I'd still like to know the root problem at hand. I was pretty sure it was the model, but now we see it's not. Oh well, if anyone figures it out, let us know.

Upgraded to WD2500BEVS Hard drive, makes clicking noise..