fabien0507 Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 hi, Is there a way to turn off the hard drive of the meg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabien0507 Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 Hi, Is there a way to turn off the hard drive of the mega ste when it is not used ? the noise of theses old hard drives are annoying me. i was told about a programm which allows to turn on / off the hard drive. Anyone can help me ? fabien Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Not sure about a turning it off. I'm sure others will reply about it. However, in both of my Mega STe's I blamed the hdd for all the noise also. Then I started using the SatanDisk and recently removed the internal hdd from one of them. Turns out most of the noise comes from the power supply fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl_R Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 In my Mega STE it's certainly the hard drive making the most noise. The psu fan alone isn't too bad. With HDDriver it's possible to park the drive and that makes a difference. However, it takes a few moments to spin up again if need to access it and that is enough to give error messages. Just access it again and no problem, but it's a minor nuisance. An all quiet internal drive would of course be preferable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Original drive (Seagate 157) is pretty load. PS fan is loud too. There are ways to turn off hard disk spin after period of inactivity (programmable). I don't Atari SW for SCSI disks. Myself made some simple util for IDE disks where can programm it. Perhaps there is such option in ICD Tools ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabien0507 Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share Posted July 16, 2012 thanks all, I have SCSI disk wiht HUSHI prg (i don't know what it is...) what can i do ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Hushi is old hard disk driver, not much spread. Surely no options to turn off motor. Wait little, I will look for solution ... If no such SW, I will make some simple util for SCSI disk spin off time programming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 OK. I looked into ICD utils. There is simple SW for parking hard disk - in attachment. Not exactly what I talked, but will serve. You can restart disk by reset, or with another ICD SW. Whole package - ICD Pro Driver 5.5 with utils is now freeware, and you can DL it at their site (don't ask for link, just type it :-) ) . ICDHDPARK.ZIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabien0507 Posted July 17, 2012 Author Share Posted July 17, 2012 thanks does it mean I have to erase HUSHI old driver and load ICD whole package as a new driver ? i don't catch the way to do... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 No. Park is just simple command to drive. If you are satisfied with Hushi, you may keep it. Btw. usual way is not to erase old driver, just to install new over - what in fact 'erases' only bootsector code, other files remain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabien0507 Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 thanks, sorry to seem to be so " ignorant ", that is whitout knowledge in France, but I don't manage to do what I want... please tell me step by step how to use ICDHDPARK and to turn off this hd drive... when I launch it, it requests me ICDBOOT... I am lost........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Go here: http://icd.com/atari/ and DL : http://icd.com/atari/adscsi.zip . Copy files from ZIP to your hard disk. Not all, for beginning just what it asks - so ICDBOOT. Then try it. Sorry, but you need to figure out some things self. All it is mostly try and correct, then try again way ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabien0507 Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 thanks, I report you what I've done : 1) I've loaded ICDBOOT PRG from hard disk, medium resolution desktop : ICD window appeared with some lines of informations in German, then the programme auto quitted and the desktop came back.... well well, i don't know if it normal i've noticed the following words before end of programme : ICD HOSTADAPTER NICHT GEFUNDEN i think it means" icd hostadapter has not been found " 2) Then I've loaded from hard disk, HDPARK TOS.... it required me ICDBOOT......... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ! please help me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 thanks, I report you what I've done : 1) I've loaded ICDBOOT PRG from hard disk, medium resolution desktop : ICD window appeared with some lines of informations in German, then the programme auto quitted and the desktop came back.... well well, i don't know if it normal i've noticed the following words before end of programme : ICD HOSTADAPTER NICHT GEFUNDEN i think it means" icd hostadapter has not been found " 2) Then I've loaded from hard disk, HDPARK TOS.... it required me ICDBOOT......... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ! please help me not sure , but maybe this can help you. http://joo.kie.sk/ultrasatan/icdpro/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Obviously it needs ICD HW and driver to work - what is made just to prevent others (who did not buy it in past) from usage. I don't know will ICD drivers work at all with Mega STE internal adapter ? In any case I would try it. But first must back up all relevant data from that drive in machine. Too much work ? Well, you should back up it in any case. Your drive may die any moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Obviously it needs ICD HW and driver to work - what is made just to prevent others (who did not buy it in past) from usage. I don't know will ICD drivers work at all with Mega STE internal adapter ? In any case I would try it. But first must back up all relevant data from that drive in machine. Too much work ? Well, you should back up it in any case. Your drive may die any moment. ICD Pro drivers work very good with the Mega STe internal adapter. It lets you use had drives that the Atari AHDI driver tells you is not supported. For example one of my Mega STe has a Quantum PD210S hdd. Atari driver says unsupported see your dealer for an udapted file or something, ICD Pro driver uses the drive with no problems. Of course so does HDDriver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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