> > > On the Thinkpad T61, the hard drive is sometimes not detected on the > > > first attempt. After thirty seconds or so it usually succeeds and > > > boots as normal. > > > > have you done any debugging of this? that sounds like a condition i haven't > > observed. > > On my Thinkcentre M55 there is actually a BIOS screen that warns of the SATA > drive possibly taking several seconds to spin up, but on that machine, the > drives are always detected on the first pass (perhaps owing to the delay at > the SATA BIOS screen). > > On the T61 there is no special BIOS warning. I have not attempted to debug > the problem beyond simply observing what happens when I try to boot the > machine. IIRC there was no such trouble when running in legacy IDE mode.
this does sound a lot like standard spinup. the firmware running in the sb probablly spins up drives running in ide emulation. there's probablly a knob in bios you can tweak.... - erik
