[indiana-discuss] Random hard drive spindown?

[Andreas Frische]

google is your friend;)
 http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=windows+ahci&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976

i actually followed this procedure for windows vista some time ago
without any problems.

anyway, with Internet access the product activation in windows takes
less than 5 minutes.
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On 5/2/08, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Mario Goebbels <me at tomservo.cc> wrote:
>  > > I can't switch to AHCI because then Windows freaks
>  >  > out and I can't
>  >  > boot it anymore. If I was just running Solaris, it
>  >  > would be fine.
>  >
>  >  If it's XP, or Vista installed while in IDE mode, you have to manually update the IDE controller in the device manager and install either the chipset-related driver in XP or at least the shipped AHCI driver in Vista, then immediately reboot and switch to AHCI.
>  >
>
>
> Yes, which I also tried and caused instant blue screen of death :-)
>
>  I have no desire to have to reinstall since that means going through
>  their silly product activation again.
>
>
>  --
>  Shawn Walker
>
>  "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
>  Robert Orben
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