[indiana-discuss] Random hard drive spindown?

[Mario Goebbels]

> 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.

That's theory, though.

-mg
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