Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:04:29 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Roger Olofsson <raggen@passagen.se>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IBM HDs vanish on warm-boot? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070716180250.024dd3c8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <469BE90B.4030503@passagen.se> References: <469BE90B.4030503@passagen.se>
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At 04:54 PM 7/16/2007, Roger Olofsson wrote:
>Dear mailing list,
>
>I have 2 IBM HDs and one WD HD (ata) in an old pc and for some reason FBSD
>6.2 can't find the IBMs on a warm-boot. Cold-boot is fine and, the WD is fine.
>
>The motherboard is an old Aopen AX34 and all settings are default except
>for ACPI that's off.
>
>The first thought that came to mind was that one of the IBMs are going
>bad, but, I find it very unlikely that both HDs are doing it. One is a 120
>and one is an 80gigger but both 'vanish' on warm-boot.
>
>Some other setting in bios than ACPI?
>
>Grateful for any answer,
IBM had some utilities for those drives which are now supported by
fujitsu. You should run the drive fitness utility. Also there was a
utility to set the drive firmware to spin down to make it quieter. You may
need to change that setting.
-Derek
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