On Fri, 22 May 2009, Russell Polo wrote:
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.
--Russell
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It could be a BIOS problem. Your motherboard will have its name
printed on it, if you remove the cover and look.
Or may it will flash on the screen while you are booting up.
In any case, if you go into bios setup you can find pretty much everything
you need to know.
See if your motherboad has flash updates. If so, you must apply them.
I just cured a problem I was having by bringing the BIOS to the latest
level.
Lex
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