I have a weird behavior on my AMD64 dual core FC 10 computer.
The machine has both IDE and SATA buses. I have the "old" drive on the IDE interface and a new 1GB drive on the Sata, I also have a DVD burner on the IDE side.
It seems that sometime after boot, (if they aren't being used) the machine will "forget" about the IDE devices. The mounted drive becomes inaccessible and the devices can not be read. Not sure on the time, it is probably more than 30 minutes so it's hard to test.
I have learned that a silly script that just does a "ls" on the old drive every 30 seconds seems to keep it around.
I also seem to get kernel oops reports associated with losing the drives. ( I get a "request to send report" ) when I restart.
Once I lose the drives, a reboot is not enough to get them back. It takes a full shutdown and restart.
The recent discussion of BIOS problems has got me thinking this might be a good place to look for a solution. I had been thinking it was a kernel problem that would probably bee fixed by an update, There have been several updates and I haven't seen a change in behavior. (I have been dealing with this for about 6 months)
I have been out of the hardware side of things for so long I probably have been demoted to "newbie" on the issue, I'm not even sure how to tell you what motherboard I have installed. Any guidance would be appreciated.
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