I noticed a strange behaivor with my Harddrive (Hardware informations below) on Windows 7 RC Build 7100:
1) If i scan for new hardware (or windows does it itself) the IDE Drive spins down and will not wakeup anymore, so the System frezzes. 2) On wakeup from S3 (Standby) the Drive will not wakeup too. 3) Everything works fine on XP (there are no chipset drivers by the manufactor, not for XP nor Windows 7).
Standby/sleep tends to do that to various pieces of hardware on Windows 7 RC at the moment. If you can avoid doing so, it is your best bet until the issue is resolved.
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