From: "EBo" <ebo@sandien.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] SATA boot failure
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:37:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <twig.1271770678.79739@swcp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b99eb72530fae2f7e07d16c8588a5c7e@kw.quanstro.net>
> > no PATA drives, just SATA-II, it worked before, but stopped to, I
> > thought it was damaged but surface scan was OK, I reinstalled, but the
> > problem persists..... it well may be also caused by the fact that I,
> > in the meantime, used that box with linux IDE discs, so I fiddled with
> > BIOS, sorrrrry...
This sounds exactly like the trouble I initially had on my AMD machine. It
turned out there is a bios bug and it is highly sensitive to how the SATA is
configured, and whether in ACHI or native IDE mode. I also found it necessary
to remove power to clear nvram or memory or something which seemed to maintain
state unless power was removed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-20 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-20 9:19 Peter A. Cejchan
2010-04-20 12:58 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-20 13:22 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2010-04-20 13:23 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-20 13:37 ` EBo [this message]
2010-04-20 14:41 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2010-04-25 19:01 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-26 5:48 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2010-04-26 12:57 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-27 9:22 ` Peter A. Cejchan
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