On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:22:32 +0000, Daniel Lenski wrote:

> 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
>

Okay, to wrap things up: there *is* a utility, in the form of a boot
floppy or CD, which can turn off "power-up in standby mode" for any
PATA/SATA drive. It was helpfully released by Mark Lord who wrote the
Linux kernel patch--as well as hdparm itself--and can be found on
sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=136732

Dan