Upgraded to WD2500BEVS Hard drive, makes clicking noise..

Bummer!

sticking with "declunk", because I didn't like paying 35 dollar for the tool anyway... (Hey, what can I say, I'm dutch 😉 ).

Ron21 it must be the default setting of the APM in the drive itself, so when you turn it off you lose the config.

I have seen a DOS utility for Hitachi drives "Feature Tool" that can modify the default setting itself, but when I haven't been able to load the keyboar driver, so I can't use it.
I've searched Hddlife like app for Mac OS X with no luck.
Have tried to compile hdparm with no luck too, I'm trying to port the hdparm's specific function for APM.

Stuck with declunk.

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Yes I can't get the Hitachi Feature Tool to work either. I made a bootable Feature Tool CD to try to boot off it, and it hangs when loading the DOS driver.

Gah that *****. I wish there was a way to fix this. 😟

9,500 load cycles in 5 days on my Hitachi 200GB 7200rpm. Insane. It was similarly high with the Fujitsu 160GB my MBP came with. I ran Windows XP for a while last night and had no load cycles at all. I wonder if there's something we can hack to fix this... (by me, I mean you, since I can't hack to save my life! :D)

Tell me about it. Using Declunk "solves" it, though I wish there was a "better" way.

I'm having the same problems as everyone else, but with my 12" G4 Powerbook and one of my Intel Minis (all with stock hard drives). Interestingly, my Mini that is running Tiger doesn't seem to have the problem (or maybe I just can't hear the drive).

I installed declunk on my Leopard Mini, which seems to solve the problem... except now it doesn't put itself to sleep automatically like it used to. Declunk seems to be keeping it awake.

Funny you mention that, because I was wondering why my system won't go to sleep anymore automatically. I tried uninstalling Declunk just now to see if it would fix it, and my system still doesn't go to sleep. How do I check if Declunk is really uninstalled?

My Mini is a dual-boot with Linux. In Linux you can set hard drive parameters with the hdparm progam:

sudo hdparm -B 255 /dev/hda

I rebooted and the clicking stopped. Alas, the settings don't seem to hold after sleeping or power-off. It's back to declunk. I don't know much about virtualization programs on Macs. Perhaps it is possible to run a Linux image in VmWare everytime you start up (and wake!) your mac, which then just calls the above command-line and quits.

Does your system sleep after however minutes you set, with Declunk installed? Mine turns the display off on time, but never goes to sleep. Closing the lid of my MBP does put it to sleep, though. I can't seem to make my system go to sleep automatically anymore. Any help appreciated...

Thought that declunk was launched like a daemon, there are more daemons writing to a disk, like Spotlight.
I always send MBP to spleep by closing the lid, never noticed the issue.

To know if declunk is running you can use the command:
sudo fs_usage | grep declunk

I wrote a little program based on the hdparm source, to send the APM setting to the disk. It's failing by now, any experiencies in ioctl call would be nice.

To know if declunk is running you can use the command:
sudo fs_usage | grep declunk

It shows up in Activity Monitor as well.

Yep, even with Declunk uninstalled, system won't sleep by itself. Very odd. Only apps installed are these:

Microsoft Office 2004
Final Cut Express HD 3.5
Toast
Skype
VLC
Flip4Mac
Firefox
USB Overdrive (for Logitech mouse - tried uninstalling it to see - no change)

Not really the end of the world that my system won't sleep by itself, but just odd that it won't....