On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:15:44 +0000, Arno Wagner wrote:
> Still, basically the BIOS manufacurers or customizers messed
> up badly here.

Yeah, seems like it :-( I still haven't found any BIOS that actually
supports spinning up a SATA disk.

And for a PATA disk, the only easy way to rescue it is with the
utility by Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, which he helpfully pointed out to me:
http://www.partitionsupport.com/advancednotes.htm

Dan