On 2/17/19 2:57 AM, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 01:23:44AM +0000, tfrohw...@fastmail.com wrote: ... >> This sounds like the problem that I (and others) have seen when the hard >> drive is set to RAID in the Bios/firmware. Try setting it to AHCI if your >> bios lets you. >> > > wow, that was exactly it! i don;t understand how it was running one > minute, and then changed, but setting the drive to ahci worked (it was > indeed parked on raid). > > thanks so much - you just saved me a ton of hassle. > > jmc > > OpenBSD 6.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #713: Wed Feb 13 22:35:28 MST 2019 > dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP ... > bios0: vendor Dell Inc. version "A15" date 08/15/2012
Your CMOS battery is dying. I've got a Dell a bit newer than yours with the same problem -- under circumstances I haven't quite figured out, the CMOS resets to default, which, oddly, is RAID. Nick.
