IDE issues <consolidated responses from several sources>

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting Matt G <linux at bizniche.com>: 
 
> My old K6 233 does this too.   But only sometimes.  All I have in there is a 
> 4gb drive and a 24x cdrom (on the ide's anyway.)   I have both of them on 
> the same ide cable, and they have to be setup a certain way.  If I leave one 
> off, or switch them around, no spin up.  And sometimes, I have to just keep 
> turning the computer on and off to get the hdd to spin up.  (It's a brand 
> new hdd.)  It's my little server, so I just leave it on anyway. 
 
Ah HA!  This sounds like a power supply issue!  Could be Brian's problem too.  
PS does not have enough juice to spin everything up at once.   
 
Drives go through this power curve thing - at first, bigger drives use more 
juice, then refinements lower the power required, then there's another 
physical jump and they go back up again.  I doubt that even a new 10,000 RPM 
160 drive uses as much power as an old full-height 5.25" 10 Megger though. 
 
 - Live from Andover - Tarcanfel East 

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