IIRC it is often frozen by the BIOS on boot. I think the pm-suspend/wake 'reinits' (for lack of a better word) the drive and doesn't set the magic frozen bit.

IIRC it is often frozen by the BIOS on boot. I think the pm-suspend/wake 'reinits' (for lack of a better word) the drive and doesn't set the magic frozen bit. I'd love to know from someone who has the actual tech details vs. my half-remembering an explanation from a wiki.