Re: harddrive problems

From: PEACEMAKER (do.not.email_at_yo.mamas.hairy.ass.com)
Date: 06/22/04


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:11:22 -0400

it is a PCI promise ultra 133 tx2 card with the .42 driver. Related
question, would it possible to get an AMD motherboard that supports all my 6
ide drives without the extra PCI controller? Everywhere I look most
motherboard only support up to 4 ide devices. I've seen others with SATA
raid but I don't have SATA drives

IRQ LIST
--------
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 3 NVIDIA nForce PCI System Management OK
IRQ 21 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller OK
IRQ 21 NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller OK
IRQ 22 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller OK
IRQ 22 NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Codec Interface OK
IRQ 20 NVIDIA PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller OK
IRQ 18 Hauppauge WinTV 878/9 WDM Video Driver OK
IRQ 11 Hauppauge WinTV 878/9 WDM Aux Driver OK
IRQ 16 WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller OK
IRQ 14 NVIDIA NForce 2(tm) SPP/IGP ATA Controller OK
IRQ 15 NVIDIA NForce 2(tm) SPP/IGP ATA Controller OK
IRQ 19 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X OK
IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK
IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK
IRQ 12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse OK
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
IRQ 10 MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device OK

Conflicts/Sharing
-----------------
Resource Device
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X

IRQ 21 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
IRQ 21 NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller

IRQ 22 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
IRQ 22 NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Codec Interface

Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xD7FFFFFF NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xD7FFFFFF NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X

I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X

Memory Address 0xDC000000-0xDCFFFFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
Memory Address 0xDC000000-0xDCFFFFFF Hauppauge WinTV 878/9 WDM Video Driver

I/O Port 0x0000C000-0x0000DFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
I/O Port 0x0000C000-0x0000DFFF WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2 (tm) IDE
Controller

Memory Address 0xDD000000-0xDEFFFFFF NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
Memory Address 0xDD000000-0xDEFFFFFF NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X

"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:fiZBc.9892$bs4.6878@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> 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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