Declunk Question

Hi All,

First of all, thank you everyone for all of your work on this forum. I've got an MK3008GAL in my aspire one and OSX is running beautifully. My only issue is with the HDD clicks. It seems whenever I try to change the interval from the default 5 seconds it goes to 0. This continual writing stops the clicks completely but there is quite a detriment to performance.

My question is: What is the correct command to get the interval on declunk to 3 or 4 seconds?

Thanks!

 

Bump.

All these views and no answers? This is a pretty major issue for anyone using OSx and the mk3008gal hdd. Does anyone out there have any alternate solutions to end the clicking (other than installing xp)?

Thanks.

 

I'm interested too,
hope someone will reply

 

That's two people interested?

Nobody else? What about all of you 30GB ZIF people?

 

I think there are just very few people running OS X on a 1.8" drive. I have no 'clunk' issues with my 2.5" SATA model...

 

Not too sure about that. Look at people's sigs in the OSX guides, quite a few are using 60GB or 30GB ZIFs

 

Well I emailed the author of Declunk and he graciously helped me out so I thought I would share:

To use declunk, use the su command before attempting to run the program, then to set a different interval (from 5 secs) use:

declunk --interval 3 (or whatever number you want)

Cheers.

 

Just looked at that declunk tool.. basically, it will prevent your hard disk from ever spinning down...

Seems like a battery waster to me...

 

Perhaps a little, though a 1.8" ZIF can't take much power to run.

The main point here is that it prevents the drive from parking its heads every 2 seconds, something that would dramatically shorten the life of the drive.

That's all.

 

Those drives are used in iPods and they park their heads very often too in such a device. Can't see why it would shorten their life expectancy.