From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 09:40:46 -0700 Message-ID: From: Skip Tavakkolian To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8ff1c9e849dfc704e43b7cd0 Subject: [9fans] the mysterious bios change Topicbox-Message-UUID: 71b242d6-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --e89a8ff1c9e849dfc704e43b7cd0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 i had a small panic on Friday, when a venti+fossil fs (a supermicro 5015A-EHF-D525 box) had an unexplained reboot followed by what appeared to be a disk problem. on inspection -- by IL booting it from an un-retired kenfs -- i noticed that the sd controller position had changed from sdE0 to sdC0. suspecting the bios setup, i checked the sata settings in bios, and the first controller was set to ata rather than ahci. although i'm happy it wasn't a bad disk, it bugs me that i don't know how the bios could have changed by itself. has anyone seen this before? -Skip --e89a8ff1c9e849dfc704e43b7cd0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
i had a small panic on Friday, when = a venti+fossil fs (a supermicro 5015A-EHF-D525 box) had an unexplained rebo= ot followed by what appeared to be a disk problem. on inspection -- by IL b= ooting it from an un-retired kenfs -- i noticed that the sd controller posi= tion had changed from sdE0 to sdC0.

suspecting the bios setup, i checked = the sata settings in bios, and the first controller was set to ata rather t= han ahci.

although i'm happy it wa= sn't a bad disk, it bugs me that i don't know how the bios could ha= ve changed by itself. has anyone seen this before?

-Skip

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