From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:37:58 -0600 To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> From: "EBo" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <387f545a7dbfcc4fa6f52b1654f6b7ad@kw.quanstro.net> , Subject: Re: [9fans] SATA boot failure Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0abac910-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > 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.