Re: 2nd HDD gone after resuming from standby

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Eric Nicholson wrote:


"Bob I" wrote:



Eric Nicholson wrote:


"Bob I" wrote:



Eric Nicholson wrote:


I have recently re-installed a harddrive which I replaced a while back. The primary purpose of the 2nd harddrive is to function as a pagefile (partition 0)and program cache (partition 1) drive. I have faith that the drive and cable are both good and I have run chkdsk on it. It's installed on the secondary IDE channel as slave (cable select). The system is homebuilt P4P800 SE, 2GB memory, Win XP SP2 with all pertinent updates. System hard drive is SATA.

I was having problems where, upon resuming from standby, I would get a delay write error and the drive would disappear from the system. I fixed the delay write error by disabling write caching but the drive still disappears when resuming from standby. It doesn't show up in Windows Explorer, the device manager nor the computer management GUI. I have to reboot to get it back.

Any ideas as to why the drive disappears upon resuming from standby?

I'd hazard a guess that those motherboard chipset drivers you are using aren't aren't compatible with XP and Standby. See the motherboard manufacturers web site for an updated version.




Hi Bob, thanks for responding.

As near as I can tell, the chipset drivers are current. I did find that the bios was out of date so I updated it; didn't help.

-- Eric


Then perhaps you will have to forgo suspend with that hardware combination. Does it reappear if you try "Add new hardware", or does the drive stay turned off.




Yup, it does reappear with "Add new hardware". In fact, there is a Windows "chime" noise almost imediately after I hit the initial Next button and the partitions show up before the wizard finishes it's search. It never gets to the point where it states "Hey, I found something".

I suspect that to some extent the drive is always there after suspend. I have, on a couple occasions worked on the computer for a short while with no ill affects (the drive in question has the pagefile on it but I do have 2GB of memory).

Also, this evening I tweaked many of the BIOS power management settings with no luck.

If I can't straighten this out soon I may actually forgo the pagefile/cache second disk in favor of a single drive system with a working Standby function. In my setup, Standby is very useful.

Thanks for your input Bob.

-- Eric

Perhaps you can keep the drive spinning during standby and then it will be seen immediately when the PC comes back.

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