Drive Setup 1.2.2: IDE drive won‘t mount on restart

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After clean installing my PowerBase with MacOS 7.6, my IDE hard disk drive will not mount after restarting, but will mount after shutting the computer down completely and then turning it back on. It didn't do this before I clean installed.
Version 1.2.2 of Apple's Drive Setup utility, which is distributed with Power Computing's 7.6 Power CDs and Apple's MacOS 7.6, puts an IDE driver in the "Layout" partition of the IDE drive. This creates a spin-down issue with the IDE hard disk. Although the hard disk will mount correctly when the computer is first powered on, it will not be accessible after a restart. This will cause the computer to boot from another volume, or, if no other volume is present, produce a flashing question mark. This issue does not affect SCSI hard drives as they use the FWB Hard Disk Toolkit as their formatting utility.

FOR CUSTOMERS WHO UPDATED TO 7.6 THROUGH APPLE:

Power Computing shipped version 1.1 of Drive Setup on the 7.5.3 and the 7.5.5 Power CDs for the PowerBase and it does not experience this issue. However, customers who have updated their driver using Drive Setup 1.2.2 will not be able to resolve the issue merely by updating the driver with version 1.1. Instead, customers must reinitialize the drive with Drive Setup 1.1 in order to resolve the issue. This is a limitation of Drive Setup.

FOR CUSTOMERS WHO CLEAN INSTALLED WITH THE 7.6 CD FROM POWER COMPUTING:

Power Computing shipped version 1.2.2 of Drive Setup on the 7.6 PowerCD. However, FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit 2.0.5 is also on the PowerCD and it supports the current IDE hard disks used in the PowerBase. Customers can update the hard disk with this software without reformatting to resolve the issue.

This issue will be resolved in a future version of Drive Setup.

Machines Affected: PowerBase Units with IDE Drives
Published Date: Feb 20, 2012