[indiana-discuss] Random hard drive spindown?

[Shawn Walker]

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