Paul Menzel wrote:
Changelog for 070H:
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* Resolved a power-up timing issue that could result in a drive hang, resulting in an inability to communicate with the host computer.
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That last item might even be a fix for the issue we experience, so I am curious if you have tried it.
Do I understand correctly that you have a firmware newer than this, and you can reliably reproduce the problem?
Or if your firmware is older, why don't you try to upgrade and tell us the results?
Since you are buying hardware components for Windows machines but not using them as they were designed (with Windows) you will have issues that manufacturers do not care about.
//Peter