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  1. Bug #346691
  2. Comment #192

Comment 192 for bug 346691

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Tim McCormack (phyzome) wrote :

I was able to set the drive to AHCI mode by setting OS compatibility in the (Phoenix?) BIOS to "Vista" (instead of "Other"), which unlocked an IDE vs. AHCI switch.

I was unable to reliably reproduce the bug while running in IDE mode (across several wipe-and-installs), but did not encounter it at all in AHCI mode. I kept it in that mode and restored my files, and have not seen corruption. (I did have to nuke my WinXP partition to do this. Win7 seems to be OK with AHCI, but probably needs a fresh install or a repair to accommodate the switchover.)

For testing I tried to use the iozone filesystem benchmarking tool from repository in an effort to generate lots of file writes in different ways, but it did not do as I hoped.

While my system now functions, the bug still lurks, waiting.