10-08-2007, 10:03 AM
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 Re: Failure of brand new drive... possibly due to staggered spinup?
"Daniel Lenski" wrote in message news:IaH8i.12293$2v1.4765@newssvr14.news.prodigy.n et
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:15:44 +0000, Arno Wagner wrote:
> > Still, basically the BIOS manufacurers or customizers messed
> > up badly here.
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> Yeah, seems like it :-(
> I still haven't found any BIOS that actu-
> ally supports spinning up a SATA disk.
But you did for PATA?
> And for a PATA disk, the only easy way to rescue it is with the utility
> by Svend Olaf Mikkelsen,
Works fine for SATA too, except maybe that the SATA controller should
support ATA compatability mode (support M/S) for Findpart to work. That is if Findpart actually uses PM, PS, SM and SS and isn't
translating
that to BIOS device numbers anyway in which case it doesn't matter.
> which he helpfully pointed out to me:
You mean, I did that, don't you?
> http://www.partitionsupport.com/advancednotes.htm
>
> Dan
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