Hitachi provides some tools for hard disks made by Hitachi. The link
for download is

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Hsing

On Jun 5, 12:09 pm, Daniel Lenski wrote:
> 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