I would still think that it's some type of Power Management function of the bios, trying to power down the hardrives after a certain amount of time, and the IBM drive doesn't handle the bios call correctly so the system reboots. But, I've never had much luck with IBM harddrives or WD drives either. chris
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Akers [mailto:sean@akers-online.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 1:36 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] why reboots my system spontaneous?
I've just had this with two different computers. One at home and one at work. In both cases the spontaneous reboots were being caused by faulty IBM IDE hard drives. Testing the drives using their DFT didn't show up any errors but they caused spontaneous reboots in both machines. Replacing these drives with new ones stopped the problem.
Sean Akers
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