MBP how to stop noisy DVD drive spinning up

[tibi08]

Is there any way to stop the DVD drive spinning up on the MBP (running Leopard), each time the computer starts up, wakes from sleep & when VMware Fusion starts?

It's really annoying and I barely ever use the DVD drive.

 

[FuzzMunky]

Why don't you just take the disc out?

 

[elcid]

I believe he means the sound when it is just checking if there is a disc in the dirve. Its sounds like a hip hop scratch to me. It would be nice if someone did come up with a terminal command as it is annoying and I am sure with how much I wake/sleep my computer it would be nice if it didnt wear itself out.

 

[tibi08]

As mentioned above, there is no disc - it's just noisy when it tries to check whether there's a disk or not. Every time I wake up the damn computer!

 

[yellow]

I'm afraid this might just be one that you have to live with..

 

[Techguy172]

I Find mine to be very quiet.

 

[tibi08]

I Find mine to be very quiet.

Try the Powerbook G4. That was quiet. MBP = not quiet 🙁

 

[Twe Foju]

Try the Powerbook G4. That was quiet. MBP = not quiet 🙁

totally agree

my sis used to have G4 and man, the disk drive was so quite

unlike the MBP's

and all MBP's are like that ( unless maybe they have a different manufactured Disk Drive ( mine is Fujitsu btw )

and each time i woke my MBP from sleep or turning my MBP on

1st i thought it's a defect, but later to found out it is like that

but well i guess we have to live with it

 

[johny5]

AFAIK this is the same on all new SR macbooks, they changed the DVD drive.
It was that quiet on my previous 2ghz macbook I couldn't hear it but now on my 2.2 SR macbook I can.

I was going to say I don't really care for it as I only have to reboot the macbook after VLC has crashed it when I play HD films but I just realised it does it when waking from sleep.
Its not that much an issue for me, when I changed macbooks I thought it was very loud but now its either quietened down or I have got used to it 🙂

 

[notengolegs]

How often are you waking it from sleep? I mean, if it's enough to annoy you, then maybe you are putting it to sleep too much?