2nd HDD gone after resuming from standby

[Guest]

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?

 

[Bob I]

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.

 

[Guest]

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bios was out of date so I updated it; didn't help.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

 

[Bob I]

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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.

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Bob I]

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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.