Parallels 7 - Keeps accessing hdd

Hi there

I have an IMAC which has a 256GB SSD main drive, 1TB secondary drive and a usb drive connected.

I have Parallels 7 installed on Lion - All fully updated.

Ever 2-5 minutes, both mechanical drives spin up (even though neither parallels or the windows 7 pvd is installed on them) even when Parallels is not loaded. As the SSD is silent, this becomes very annoying.

Diagnostics show that a process called prl_disp_service is accessing these drives. I can't see why it would be doing this (especially as Parallels is not loaded).

Is there any way to stop this or tell Parallels to ignore other drives attached to the system?

Many thanks

Drew

 

HDD Access

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I think the cause is more fundamental than this. A daemon is loaded on bootup and regardless of whether I have used Parallels or not, the drives do spin up.

Subsequent to my post, i found this which reports the same bug:

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=208172

Doesn't look like there has been much feedback on this though.

Regards

Drew

 

Soem notes:

Try uninstalling Parallels (let it keep the settings) and see how the drives behave.

There's no reason to send an hard disk to sleep with an interval of less than 30 minutes in power management. Hard disks are made to be spinning, what can wear them out more is spinning up/down.

Finally, the Forum is not the correct place for bug reporting the Parallels site has a specific support area for that.