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SATA maxtor disk issues - only cleared by cable removal
not sure if this helps, but i have a similar problem - with a single maxtor 76gig SATA disk. Symptoms are either the PC fails to boot (gets stuck in the RAID detection area and doesn't seem to find the bootable drive) , or gives the random characters instead of the disk info in the RAID disk info.
I solve this by removing all power to the PC (mains out or psu switched off) and then removing the SATA cable from the disk and reapplying it - it's as if the motherboard CMOS battery keeps whatever corruption is there even with power off. Removing/reappying has worked in all but two cases...these were when it started to boot and gave a cannot load .../systemced error. This is a win2k issue caused by too big a system hive (google search on systemced for fix!).
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