10.4 Issue on Powerbook

danosaurdanosaur
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Yesterday I installed Tiger on my Alu Powerbook, 12" 1.33 gHz.



Since then my hard drive has not stopped spinning, it seems. It gives a slow clicking sound constantly. Everyone once and a while when it speeds up a bit, but it is never silent.



I've checked energy saver and sleep hard drive when not in use is checked. It does this both when plugged into AC and on battery power.



I'm concerned for a few reasons. I'm worried it will use more battery, or there is something wrong with my computer or something wrong with my OS.



Or is it just spotlight indexing? It says it's done, and it seems to work.



Anyways, anyone know what the problem is?

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Danosaur

    Yesterday I installed Tiger on my Alu Powerbook, 12" 1.33 gHz.



    Since then my hard drive has not stopped spinning, it seems. It gives a slow clicking sound constantly. Everyone once and a while when it speeds up a bit, but it is never silent.



    I've checked energy saver and sleep hard drive when not in use is checked. It does this both when plugged into AC and on battery power.



    I'm concerned for a few reasons. I'm worried it will use more battery, or there is something wrong with my computer or something wrong with my OS.



    Or is it just spotlight indexing? It says it's done, and it seems to work.



    Anyways, anyone know what the problem is?



    Open Activity Monitor (in Applications/Utilities) and see what it says for "disk activity".
  • Reply 2 of 2
    danosaurdanosaur Posts: 258member
    Well, it's all over the place, the numbers keep changing every second. The only things that are pretty constant are:



    Reads in: 45282

    Writes Out: 111624

    Data read: 908.5 MB

    Data Written: 1.77 GB



    Everything else is fluctuating very fast. It seems to depend on what I'm doing. For example, when I type it shows activity, when i do nothing it fluctuates less.



    How can I make this more clear to you?



    And thank you.
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