[ltp] Crashes on boot with new HD

[Harold Pimentel]

=0A=0A--- On Thu, 10/8/09, Helen Borrie <helebor@iinet.net.au> wrote:=0A=0A=
[snip] =0A> I don't know whether it's relevant to your situation...but=0A> =
when I took delivery of my T60, it had a 60GB HDD 5400 rpm=0A> which I imme=
diately replaced with a 250GB 7200 rpm.=A0 I=0A> wasn't getting problems wi=
th Mandriva 2008-1 on that=0A> box.=A0 I saw that your startup was creating=
 a RAM disk,=0A> which mine doesn't, so i have no idea whether that makes a=
ny=0A> difference between the two Linux setups.=A0 =0A> =0A> But I definite=
ly was having a crash problem with the=0A> Windows installation - blue-scre=
ening at random with one of=0A> those idiotic "parity check error" messages=
.=A0 As it got=0A> more frequent (3 or more crashes a day when running=0A> =
Windows), I scoured around and came up with a thread from=0A> the Lenovo fo=
rums where someone who seemed to be a Lenovo=0A> support person told the OP=
 to check the BIOS for the AHCI=0A> setting.=A0 There is apparently NO BIOS=
 version in=0A> existence for the T60s that provides reliable AHCI support.=
=0A> =0A> =0A> I knew that mine was set for AHCI, because I remembered=0A> =
setting it deliberately myself for no particularly good=0A> reason.=A0 ;-) =
When I switched mine back to the generic=0A> 'combined' setting (I forget t=
he actual name of the option=0A> itself but I think it just means 'IDE') th=
e problem=0A> disappeared - no more crashes for more than a month now,=0A> =
even tho' I've been running the T60 24/7 as an Apache 2=0A> server under Wi=
nXP for a project I'm doing.=0A> =0A> Helen=0A=0A=0AHi Helen,=0A=0AThanks f=
or the response. I've tried both AHCI and combined setting and no success =
=3D\ Is it worth calling a lenovo tech about this or are they clueless abou=
t linux?=0A=0A=0A=0AThanks,=0A=0AHarold=0A=0A=0A