Upgraded to WD2500BEVS Hard drive, makes clicking noise..

It's been a week and I have no answer from Western Digital on this issue...
I've found a Hitachi utility to adjust APM on Hitachi's disks firmware it's called Feature Tool, so It would be useful something similar in WD.
It would be nice, that people affected asks WD for a solution.
You can do it here:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php

And here is the post on WD forums:
http://websupport.wdc.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6400

I have the same experience with WD support. It's been a week since I made the support call on this issue. The same day I got a reply from them, so I thought: "That is quick!". But it seemed an automated reply based on terms in my message. It pointed me to the solution which I already noted in my message didn't work, because I don't have a PC with a floppy drive. After that I didn't hear anything...
Bummer!

I'm having the same problem, everyone. I received my new Macbook Pro a few weeks ago. It came with a 160GB 5400rpm Fujitsu, but I hated the parking of heads it was doing several times a minute - as often as ten times a minute, so I replaced the drive with a new Hitachi 200GB 7200rpm. The problem persists. I've had the Hitachi in my MBP for less than a week, and I'm already near 9,000 load cycles. It's really starting to bother me, and I'm not sure what to do. I followed instructions to install Declunk, but after installation it doesn't seem to have worked, since I'm still clunking all over the place.

Is there no real fix for this atrocious OS X bug? I have Windows XP installed via Bootcamp and there's no such issue there.

Forgot to mention, if I run the Declunk file, I get this

dyld: shared cached file is corrupt: /var/db/dyld/dyld shared_cacheppc
Unable to write PID file /var/run/declunk.pid! Running as root? (Error ignored)
OK. Deamon starting up. Interval is 5 seconds.

Same sort of error when I try to install it.

This is what happens when I actually install it:

Copying launchd item to /Library/LaunchDeamons...
declunk.plist -> /Library/LaunchDaemons/declunk.plist
Copying application to /usr/local/sbin...
declunk -> /usr/local/sbin/declunk
Starting declunk...
Installation finished.
W-Groses-macbook-pro:declunk WGrose$ dyld: shared cached file is corrupt: /var/db/dyld/dyld shared_cacheppc
OK. Deamon starting up. Interval is 5 seconds.

I seem to remember that the declunk app is compiled for Powerpc macs, not intel based Macs. This is not a big issue (if you are not afraid of Terminal.. 😉 because the source code is provided in the Declunk-1.0.dmg file. There is one thing though, you have to have the Developer tools installed for this.
All you have to do is:
-In the Terminal.app go to the declunk folder and type: cd source
-in the source folder you should see a "Makefile" and "declunk.c". Type: make
-declunk.c will be compiled and a new binary is put in your "declunk" folder (not the source folder). Check the date to be sure.
-you can run the installer again.
Hope this works for you.

There's one more thing...
The optimal setting for me is to compile "declunk.c" with a setting of 4 second interval instead of the default 5 second interval. If you are still having problems after you compiled declunk again, you can try setting your interval to 4 seconds. To do this you have to edit line 86 of declunk.c where it says "int interval=5;". You have to make a 4 where it says 5 and save the file. Then compile it again.
Hope this helps too.

Thanks Francois. However, typing Make results in this:

make declunk.c
-bash: make: command not found

So I can't see to be able to do that part. 😟

Do you think you could e-mail me a compile-for-Intel version of the program? Thanks very much if you can:

wgrose@gmail.com

WGrose you need to install Xcode to compile it.
I posted before a link with declunk compiled for intel :P

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=mz6hrb6fzof

Yes, sorry, but that link isn't working for me, for some reason....

I've mailed you the intel binary files.

Cheers 🙂

Thanks Francois. I ran the installation and got this:

opying launchd item to /Library/LaunchDeamons...
declunk.plist -> /Library/LaunchDaemons/declunk.plist
Copying application to /usr/local/sbin...
declunk -> /usr/local/sbin/declunk
Starting declunk...
Installation finished.
WGrose-macbook-pro:declunk WGrose$ OK. Deamon starting up.
Interval is 5 seconds.

That looks right to me, but after reboot there's no "Declunk" in the Activity Monitor. 😟

Thanks for the assistance!

Arghhh! I readed about this program before in forums, never thought that the APM setting was persistent!
Works for me too!
Thanks Ron! I'm spreading the solution 😀
Getting rid of declunk...

Hey Ron will this application stop working after 14 days, though?

Keep me posted! Thanks for all the work!

Bad news, seems that the APM setting goes away when you power off your system, this morning when I woke the clicking has returned 😟