Friday, October 30, 2020

Re: sd0-n vs wd0-n

On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 16:42:18 -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> Amelia A Lewis [amyzing@talsever.com] wrote:
[snip]
>
> Perhaps the CMOS battery failed and the BIOS reverted to a default setting.
-and-
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:05:23 -0700, obsdml@loopw.com wrote:
> My guess is that the nvram of the bios somehow reset its
> configuration back to default. (corruption, power loss, etc. - these
> are cheap parts made with failure rates after all)
>
> The default of most x86 bioses up until the last few years was to
> bring up SATA ports in IDE compatible mode, which will have them show
> up as wd devices.

Thanks both! Quite right. Motherboard manual doesn't show a battery (it
might be there, but it's not in the diagrams). However, the BIOS manual
does take me straight to the place where SATA can be set to ACPI (or
RAID), which does default to IDE. Resetting it returns it to sd.

Amy!
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Amelia A. Lewis amyzing {at} talsever.com
There's someone in my head, but it's not me.
-- Pink Floyd

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