disabling irq assigned to sata hard drives

Hi All, In the last week, my desktop has been disabled by disabling an IRQ several times. Feb 20 14:46:05 rigel kernel: [17358.879005] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) Feb 20 14:46:05 rigel kernel: ...

Message posted on the February 27th, 2011 - 6:20 PM ET

Hitachi GST Ships One Terabyte Per Platter Hard Drives

New Family of Deskstar and CinemaStar Hard Drives Reach Areal Density Milestone; Optimized One-Disk Design Offered in 250GB to 1TB Targeting 3.5-inch HDD Industry Capacity Sweetspots.

Press published on the September 6th, 2011 - 1:01 AM ET

Comparison of 6 external hard drives

External hard drives are very practical and allow you to transport your sensitive data and personal files will you, rather then having them located on your PC or Mac. This is also very practical in the event of a system crash! They are mobile and ...

Review published on the May 30th, 2009 - 9:33 AM ET

Implement a planned defrag of your hard drives under Windows XP

Discover the necessary steps needed to implement a planned defrag of your hard drives under Windows XP/2003. The interesting thing here is to not use third part programs like Diskeeper or others.

Tips & Tricks published on the February 11th, 2005 - 6:00 PM ET

Hard Drives definitions

There are number of different technical terms used to define and differentiate hard drives. Cached memory, NCQ, S-ATA, P-ATA, SMART, SCSI, AAM, rotation speed, etc. All of these terms can be a little confusing so in this article we will explain what ...

Review published on the October 2nd, 2006 - 6:00 PM ET

Imation Expands Line of High-Capacity, High-Security, Hardware Encrypted USB Hard Drives

Imation meets the rising need for secure data portability up to 1 TB, with comprehensive device management, remote kill and biometric authentication option.

Press published on the August 14th, 2012 - 5:00 AM ET

HGST Ships a New Family of 2.5-Inch CinemaStar Hard Drives

New CinemaStar Family Combines “Sweet Spot” 500GB Capacity, Low Power, Quiet Acoustics and High Reliability, Driving a New Generation of Traditional, and Ultra-slim and Compact DVRs, HDD-embedded TVs, and Satellite/Cable Set ...

Press published on the May 15th, 2012 - 1:01 AM ET

Seagate Tops 1 Million Mark in Shipments of Self-Encrypting Hard Drives for Laptop PC’s and Data Center Servers

Customer adoption swells as more computer makers ship systems powered by Seagate® SEDs, Seagate’s security alliances grow, and more SEDs win key government certification.

Press published on the February 14th, 2011 - 6:59 AM ET

turning hard drives on / off

I have 2x 1TB hard drives and would like one to be a backup of the other. I could set up a RAID0 array, or something, but what I was thinking I'd like to do, instead, would be to use robocopy to keep the two hard drives synchronized. Maybe run it ...

Message posted on the September 9th, 2009 - 4:06 PM ET

USB hard drives not assigned drive letter after crash

I have a 500 gig external USB drive that filled up. I connected an external 1.5 Tb drive yesterday to copy the contents, and left the copy procedure to work overnight. This morning the computer had blue screened. Now when I plug the drives in, ...

Message posted on the June 5th, 2009 - 9:40 AM ET

Ext. hard drives no longer recognised

Hi there I'm running XP Pro SP3 and up till about 4 weeks ago both my external hard drives were recognised by this system after plugging the USB cable into a front port on the case. The 2nd ext. HDD is a Seagate 1TB drive which is only a few weeks ...

Message posted on the April 10th, 2010 - 11:33 PM ET

Hard drives not seen in BIOS

WIN7 64bit ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3. I have a SSD on SATA1 with the OS, HDD on SATA2 with music files and a DVD drive on SATA6. Everything was fine until I updated my BIOS. Now although everything works OK and the OS sees all [computer management, ...

Message posted on the March 21st, 2013 - 5:55 PM ET

Hard Drives and the AUTOPLAY tab

hello, the Autoplay tab has started showing up on the hard drive / properties when right clicking the drives from "my computer". I looked in the event viewer and opened up disk management, but everything looks OK. Anybody come across ...

Message posted on the June 14th, 2009 - 2:58 PM ET

Bug#448673: acpi-support: excessively load cycles some hard drives

One more info: If you have laptop-mode-tools installed, disabling hdd power management (hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda) don't fix the problem. Load_Cycle_Count still increase. Only removing laptop-mode-tools don't fix the problem. Is necessary *remove* ...

Message posted on the February 18th, 2009 - 9:50 AM ET

hard drives management