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Apple Releases Fix for MacBook Pro Hard Drive Issues
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This update only applies if you BTO'd your MacBook Pro with a Seagate 500GB 7200RPM drive and only that drive. If you replaced the HD yourself, then it's an aftermarket drive and Apple does nothing for that.
That is incorrect. The 320GB 7200RPM BTO drive has the same problem. This update will show up in Software Update if you have the 7200RPM 320GB drive, and it definitely updates the firmware for it.
What, pray tell, does that command do? I don't want to sudo anything until I have some idea of what the command is...
This appears for a 2009 MBP with the 7200rpm drive, but not for one with the stock drive.
Note Apple makes no claims about freezing, either the momentary one associated with the clickbeep issue, or the longer near 30 second ones. It only talks about "reducing certain noises".
Note Apple makes no claims about freezing, either the momentary one associated with the clickbeep issue, or the longer near 30 second ones. It only talks about "reducing certain noises".
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I don't know for sure but this page would suggest it disables the machine's sudden motion sensor... I'm not sure how wise that is...
http://ss64.com/osx/pmset.html
Even better, "infrequent" noises. Even though my 2 drives (original one which failed all S.M.A.R.T. tests, short and long, and AppleCare replacement) click+beeped only a few times per day, those youtube videos clearly showed some seagates clicking and beeping pretty regularly... PR department working overtime at Apple anymore.
"hdapm disk0 max"
problem better solved...!
http://mckinlay.net.nz/hdapm/
http://dougitdesign.com/blogs/blog_12_08_mac-clicking-hdd-hard-drive-noise-hdapm.html
P.S. digging into the update with Pacifist and Smulton revealed that Apple made changes to their own APM (power management), among other changes...
Which other vendors? We're talking about a specific set/batch of Seagate hard drives. Nothing more. And it could as well be an OS problem, but that's just a wild speculation.
No failing after market drives here. And I would have contacted Seagate's support devision right away after experiencing the first few clicks.
I'm confused. I have a Unibody MacBook Pro 17" purchased 2 weeks ago, custom configured with a 500 GB 7200 drive. I checked Apple system profiler and it shows my drive as Model #ST9500420ASG. (Seagate Momentus 7200.4 SATA 500-GB Hardrive.)
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...ecadd110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD&locale=en-US
I ran software update and it did not see the firmware update. So I did a manual download and tried to run it and I got an error message saying "This computer does not need this update."
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...ecadd110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD&locale=en-US
I ran software update and it did not see the firmware update. So I did a manual download and tried to run it and I got an error message saying "This computer does not need this update."
OK - So I have a MacBook Pro 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo that's a couple of years old and I just upgraded my hard drive to one of these Seagate 500 GB hard drives. And I have been hearing the little beep every once in awhile. How do I get the update from Apple? Both updates have not appeared in my Software Update.
By following the link in the first post!
Both? You mean you don't have iLife '09 (assuming that you are talking about the screen shot posted by t0mat0 / #32).
You mean to tell me that Apple put in a drive that has the acceleration sensor as a BTO option?! That's ridiculous, whoever did that should be in big trouble. I almost made the mistake of ordering one, and someone warned me not to do it, and get the "non-g" version, but I didn't know that Macbook had such sensors built in. Good news is that my 500GB Seagate works just fine on my Macbook.
You may already have the firmware. I had my MBP from june replaced 2 weeks ago, and it already had the new firmware pre-installed. In system profiler it should say 0007APM2 under "Revision" for your HDD.
No - I'm pretty sure there was an earlier update to this hard drive issue and that this is version 2.0 of the update. Not talking about the screenshot.
Oh and that link does not do the trick for me. When I download the update and try to run it, it says my machine doesn't need the update and closes. Thanks, but I think the update assumes that my machine does not have one of the affected hard drives without actually looking at my hard drive.
My understanding was that it was beeping noises and brief freezes:
"Users of the drives have been reporting for several months that their drives periodically make a "beeping" noise that is frequently accompanied by brief freezes of their systems."
I know it was a long-shot but it's a 7,200rpm Seagate drive. I don't have that preference set and the freezes are definitely not expected behaviour and are not when the MBP's been idle.
EDIT: Looking at the product page for my BTO HDD: http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...c0780210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD&locale=en-US it lists in the features: G-Force Protection™ feature. Surely that's needs an update? Perhaps there will be other updates for other similar drives shortly
This is glorious... had it for half an hour and no more beeping no more freezing. I have a 17" Unibody MBP configured in June with the 7200 drive.
(The beeping and freezing did not occur concurrently, they would both be random, sporadic and frequent). So far, no more. Thank you Apple, for not pissing me off this week with more unnecessary freezes that my Dad's Dell.
(The beeping and freezing did not occur concurrently, they would both be random, sporadic and frequent). So far, no more. Thank you Apple, for not pissing me off this week with more unnecessary freezes that my Dad's Dell.