| Bill Jonas on Mon, 5 Aug 2002 17:50:34 +0200 |
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:14:59AM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > No, but I will try. Reason why you think that is the problem? Well, I've a system (old and crappy; not just low-spec, but flaky hardware too) that's two or three years old that won't even see the hard drive on the first boot from a poweroff. I have to let it go through a long POST and then reboot the machine in order to get it to see the hard drive. As of yet, I haven't bothered trying to find out why. It's the way that system behaves, combined with a suspicion that possibly, just maybe, the hard drive hasn't fully completed its own initialization process yet (or that the kernel hasn't fully poked and prodded it yet) that causes me to suggest that. Question(s): is this drive the boot drive? If not, is it mounted on boot? If either of the above, does it appear to be working fine when hdparm fails? -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Attachment:
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