severe hard drive issues
several problems i have a ata 133 raid card with 2 60 gig ata 100 hard drives 1 blistering fast speed as a floppy 2 there is no dma mode available, do i need it? 3 is there anyway to check the actual speed to know if its even working right? 4 its not a missing driver problem because without the driver on the cd ins ...
several problems
i have a ata 133 raid card with 2 60 gig ata 100 hard drives
1 blistering fast speed as a floppy
2 there is no dma mode available, do i need it?
3 is there anyway to check the actual speed to know if its even working right?
4 its not a missing driver problem because without the driver on the cd installed, the hard drives will not run at all.
however it does in 98, some sort of compatibility mode, but i no longer use 98 anyway.
5 i cant run ANY disk checking programs, EVEN NORTON.
and yes ive tried to boot into safe mode and do it, and even removed all starting programs, etc. etc... its not that.
unless there is some harddrive protection service that i dont know about
i suspect that it may be a service that keeps me from checking my drive
or a really really bad driver for the ata card
it did work in 98 tho, why not 2000 i dont know. services?
6 Silicon Image SiI 0680 Ultra-133 Medley ATA Raid Controller
is the card
7 ST360020 A SCSI Disk Device
WDC WD60 0AB-22CBA0 SCSI Disk Device
those are what windows says my hard drives are.
and no they are not scsi
8 yes i am very irate
9 i have 512 mb of ram, so its not a swap file issue
i have a ata 133 raid card with 2 60 gig ata 100 hard drives
1 blistering fast speed as a floppy
2 there is no dma mode available, do i need it?
3 is there anyway to check the actual speed to know if its even working right?
4 its not a missing driver problem because without the driver on the cd installed, the hard drives will not run at all.
however it does in 98, some sort of compatibility mode, but i no longer use 98 anyway.
5 i cant run ANY disk checking programs, EVEN NORTON.
and yes ive tried to boot into safe mode and do it, and even removed all starting programs, etc. etc... its not that.
unless there is some harddrive protection service that i dont know about
i suspect that it may be a service that keeps me from checking my drive
or a really really bad driver for the ata card
it did work in 98 tho, why not 2000 i dont know. services?
6 Silicon Image SiI 0680 Ultra-133 Medley ATA Raid Controller
is the card
7 ST360020 A SCSI Disk Device
WDC WD60 0AB-22CBA0 SCSI Disk Device
those are what windows says my hard drives are.
and no they are not scsi
8 yes i am very irate
9 i have 512 mb of ram, so its not a swap file issue
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I would suggest that you verify that the RAID card has the latest firmware, and also the latest drivers. Typically, with RAID controllers, the driver is installed (with NT/2000/XP/.NET) before the OS is installed. If the RAID controller is added after the OS is installed, then you must install the driver before the card is added.
Are the drives identical? My guess would be yes, but there's no mentions of it there...
Like it was stated, check for a firmware update on the RAID controller, that fixed my problems. Also, if those drives are WD drives, get a copy of the dlgdiag tool on western digital's site to scan the HDs to make sure their SMART table and structures are ok. RAID dislikes defective drives. Make sure your stripped bit isn't too high also (RAID controller tools on bootup, default is usually the sweet spot)
HDTach usually tests RAID well too, try running it to see if you hit the 80/100 meg/sec (If you are in RAID0, of course)
Like it was stated, check for a firmware update on the RAID controller, that fixed my problems. Also, if those drives are WD drives, get a copy of the dlgdiag tool on western digital's site to scan the HDs to make sure their SMART table and structures are ok. RAID dislikes defective drives. Make sure your stripped bit isn't too high also (RAID controller tools on bootup, default is usually the sweet spot)
HDTach usually tests RAID well too, try running it to see if you hit the 80/100 meg/sec (If you are in RAID0, of course)
well the hard drives are
ST360020 A SCSI Disk Device
WDC WD60 0AB-22CBA0 SCSI Disk Device
and they are different brands
plus i am not running raid because i got the card after i had the hard drives
and i didnt want to reinstall about 80 gigs of my files after formatting
and partioning, etc, etc.
i got the latest driver, helped about 10%
i still cant use scandisk in 2000 (drives in use)
i do think there should be a speed boost from
onboard ata33 ide to a new raid ata 133 card
thats all im wondering...
2000 doesnt detect my drives as IDE it says theyre SCSI
its not SCSI though
maybe theres a generic SCSI driver i have to get?
ST360020 A SCSI Disk Device
WDC WD60 0AB-22CBA0 SCSI Disk Device
and they are different brands
plus i am not running raid because i got the card after i had the hard drives
and i didnt want to reinstall about 80 gigs of my files after formatting
and partioning, etc, etc.
i got the latest driver, helped about 10%
i still cant use scandisk in 2000 (drives in use)
i do think there should be a speed boost from
onboard ata33 ide to a new raid ata 133 card
thats all im wondering...
2000 doesnt detect my drives as IDE it says theyre SCSI
its not SCSI though
maybe theres a generic SCSI driver i have to get?
