Why does hard drive keep reving up?

On Nov 25, 5:05 am, kony <s...@spam.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:23:38 -0800 (PST), brett
>
> <acco...@cygen.com> wrote:
> >> Try setting something other than 0 minutes like 2 hours or
> >> whatever. Try the drive in another system to see if it
> >> exhibits same behavior. Try pulling new video card and
> >> uninstalling it's driver, occasionally I have come across
> >> video card drivers that had strange interactions with hard
> >> drives, causing them to power down... and if it was the OS
> >> drive it crashes system, but maybe in this case it can
> >> gracefully recover being a secondary drive and on SATA.
>
> >I've set the HDs to sleep after 2 hours and have taken out the video
> >card. For whatever reason, one or both of the HDs has been constantly
> >crunching. I'll have to wait for that to stop to see if removing the
> >video card makes any difference.
>
> What's "crunching"?

The hard drives. They're busy doing something.

BTW, with the video card out, it's still reving up in cycles. So,
scratch the video card.