Re: harddrive problems

From: R. McCarty (PcEngWork-NoSpam__at_mindspring.com)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:40:43 GMT

Which Promise controller are you using ?, Is it an on-board
motherboard controller or an add-in PCI card.

Windows identifies the Promise as a SCSI controller which
is normal. You may have issues with IRQ mapping. The
normal IDE0/IDE1 are going to use IRQ's #14 & #15. You
need to check and see how the Promise controller IRQ(s)
are mapped. IRQ's have a native priority handling order. IF
the promise uses a lower priority interrupt, you may have
problems with PCI Bus contention. It's likely that XP has
the Promise controller using IRQ #10 which is common for
SCSI controllers.

I would do a Chkdsk /R on all your drives, just to make sure
no disk errors are present.

Just a FYI: with that number of Drives in your system you
may need a heftier power supply and possibly some additional
cooling.

"PEACEMAKER" <do.not.email@yo.mamas.hairy.ass.com> wrote in message
news:O9ffhYHWEHA.4056@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> here is my drive config
>
> ide0: 20gig maxtor - drive c
> ide0-secondary: 40gig WD drive d (windows installation)
> ide1: 40gig ibm - drive e (swap is on this drive)
> ide1-secondary - cd burner
>
> promise controller
> slot0: 80gig maxtor - drive j
> slot1: 120gig maxtor - drive k
>
>
> now sometimes when drive j is busy (copying files or viewing thumbnails)
the
> system will freeze up sometimes I'll have to reboot because explorer just
> gets stuck while existing apps run just fine. The event viewer shows
>
> Error: The device, \Device\Scsi\ultra1, did not respond within the timeout
> period.
> Warning: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a
paging
> operation.
>
> about 30 seconds later (this is probably when I notice the freeze)
>
> Error: The device, \Device\Scsi\ultra1, is not ready for access yet.
> Error: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\D.
>
> Now I'm not sure wtf is going on here and which drive is bad, if any drive
> is bad at all. The names windows gives the drives is sort of stupid I
can't
> figure out which drives are causing the errors. Or which controller (the
one
> on motherboard or the promise controller). I know this happens when I'm
> using drive j (I don't use drive k that much to notice anything) but what
is
> \Device\Harddisk0\D? is it my drive D and why would it give me problems
when
> I'm using drive j? the swap file is on drive e
>
> my mobo is asus with nvidia chipset
>
>
>

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