Re: Event ID 11 - please help

From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 08/25/04


Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:18:49 -0700

I do not know enough to fully answer your question soundly, but I can
offer some suggestions and thoughts. First off, you asked:
Could someone please confirm that " \Device\Harddisk4\D" and
"\Device\HarddiskVolume4" refer to the same drive volume?
I am thinking \Device\Harddisk4 refers to a 5th hard drive whereas
\Device\HarddiskVolume4 refers to the 5th volume on a hard drive, but I
do not know how you have your computer set up. It sounds like you have
a ton of drives.

Are you using Intel Application Accelerator for RAID? Have you double
checked the settings in the BIOS? Have you run diagnostic tools on all
of the drives?

----
Nathan McNulty
Leroy Casterline wrote:
> WinXP SP1A, patches up to date.
> 
> I've got an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard, which has built-in Intel
> and Promise RAID controllers. I have two SATA WD 120GB hard drives
> connected to the Intel controller configured as RAID-0 (striped), and
> two more SATA WD 120 GB drives connected to the Promise controller
> configured as RAID-1 (mirrored). The RAID-0 array consists of drives C:
> -> I: and the RAID-1 array is drive J:. I also have two USB drives used
> to hold off-line backups, drives K: and L:. 
> 
> I am using the latest (non-beta) version of the P4C800 BIOS (1017),
> which includes the latest Intel RAID firmware (I was running an older
> BIOS version when these problems surfaced, so I updated to see if this
> would solve the problem).
> 
> The Event ID 11 message I get is "The driver detected a controller error
> on \Device\Harddisk4\D".  I've also had reports of this nature for
> Harddisk5, Harddisk6, Harddisk7, Harddisk8, Hardisk9 and Harddisk10.
> 
> The KB says that the most likely cause of these errors is a bad cable.
> In checking my cables, I noticed that the plastic SATA connector on the
> motherboard for one of the Intel RAID connections had come loose.
> Thinking that this was my problem, I swapped out the motherboard but the
> problems persist. I also swapped the cables on the Intel controller with
> those on the Promise controller. Since the problem did not move with the
> cables, I assume the cables are not the problem (I don't have spares but
> I've got some on order now).
> 
> This leads me to believe that the problem must be on a drive rather than
> in the controller or cable, but I'm not sure which drive is having
> problems (or even which controller the problem drive is connected to).
> Does this sound reasonable?
> 
> I've found several articles in the KB and in these newsgroups that
> advise looking at key HKLM\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP in the registry to find
> this information. However, since my drives are on RAID controllers, I
> have no IDE keys and the SCSI keys refer only to the RAID controllers.
> For example, "HKLM\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi\Scsi Port 0\Scsi Bus 0\Target
> Id 0\Logical Unit Id 0" reports an Identifier "RAID 0 Volume" and a Type
> "DiskPeripheral". 
> 
> Further research lead to me the dmdiag utility included in the Support
> Tools. Running this utility with the -v (verbose) option yields the
> results I've pasted at the end of this message. Nothing in these results
> exactly matches the " \Device\Harddisk4\D" reported in the error. The
> closest I see is "E: = \Device\HarddiskVolume4 [Fixed]", but since the
> drive designation is different I don't want to assume they are the same.
> Also, I have no idea what the "\D" in the error message means.
> 
> Also, as I mentioned above, I've had these errors on Harddisk9 and
> Harddisk10 (but only once - Harddisk4 turns up in every error event -
> when 9 and 10 were reported, it was in series of error events with 4, 5,
> 6, 7, and 8). Since Harddisk9 and Harddisk10 appear to be my USB drives,
> I can't see how they can be involved in this issue at all. Since I have
> not seen them in an error event since I swapped in the new motherboard,
> perhaps it as an issue with the USB controller on the old MB.
> 
> Could someone please confirm that " \Device\Harddisk4\D" and
> "\Device\HarddiskVolume4" refer to the same drive volume? 
> 
> I'd also like to know why the volumes are reported differently in the
> error event and in the dmdiag report (assuming they are indeed the same
> volume), and what the "/D" in the error event means.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> P.S. Am I correct in assuming that I can ignore the "LDM" errors below
> as I don't have dynamic drive volumes?
> 
> 
> ---------- Computer Name and OS Version ----------
> 
>        Computer name: LEROYWORK
>             NT build: 2600
>             CPU Type: x86
>       DMDIAG Version: 5.1.2600.0 shp
> 
> ---------- LDM File Versions ----------
> 
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\dmadmin.exe
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\dmconfig.dll
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\dmdlgs.dll
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\dmdskmgr.dll
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\dmdskres.dll
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\dmintf.dll
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\dmremote.exe
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\dmserver.dll
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\dmutil.dll
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\dmview.ocx
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\dmboot.sys
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\dmio.sys
>               2600.0.503.0 shp - C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\dmload.sys
> 
> ---------- Mount Points ----------
> 
> 
> ---------- Drive Letter Usage, Drive Type ----------
> 
> A: = \Device\Floppy0 [Removable]
> C: = \Device\HarddiskVolume2 [Fixed]
> D: = \Device\HarddiskVolume3 [Fixed]
> E: = \Device\HarddiskVolume4 [Fixed]
> F: = \Device\HarddiskVolume5 [Fixed]
> G: = \Device\HarddiskVolume6 [Fixed]
> H: = \Device\HarddiskVolume7 [Fixed]
> I: = \Device\HarddiskVolume8 [Fixed]
> J: = \Device\HarddiskVolume1 [Fixed]
> K: = \Device\HarddiskVolume9 [Fixed]
> L: = \Device\HarddiskVolume10 [Fixed]
> Y: = \Device\CdRom1 [CDRom]
> Z: = \Device\CdRom0 [CDRom]
> 
> ---------- Consolidated LDM Configuration Data ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- \Device\Harddisk0 ----------
> 
> \Device\Harddisk0\DP(1)0x7e00-0x4e22c6e00+3 (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk0\DP(2)0x4e22d6a00-0x27115f800+4 (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk0\DP(3)0x75343e000-0x3a9627200+5 (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk0\DP(4)0xafca6d000-0xc34f24e00+6 (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk0\DP(5)0x1731999c00-0x15f8cea400+7 (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk0\DP(6)0x2d2a68be00-0x32c5df400+8 (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk0\DP(7)0x3056c73000-0x78d9a5200+9 (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0            (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk0\Partition0     (SymbolicLink) -> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0
> \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1     (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\HarddiskVolume2
> \Device\Harddisk0\Partition2     (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\HarddiskVolume3
> \Device\Harddisk0\Partition3     (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\HarddiskVolume4
> \Device\Harddisk0\Partition4     (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\HarddiskVolume5
> \Device\Harddisk0\Partition5     (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\HarddiskVolume6
> \Device\Harddisk0\Partition6     (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\HarddiskVolume7
> \Device\Harddisk0\Partition7     (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\HarddiskVolume8
> 
> ---------- \Device\Harddisk1 ----------
> 
> \Device\Harddisk1\DP(1)0x7e00-0x1beffb7a00+2 (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk1\DR1            (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk1\Partition0     (SymbolicLink) -> \Device\Harddisk1\DR1
> \Device\Harddisk1\Partition1     (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\HarddiskVolume1
> 
> ---------- \Device\Harddisk2 ----------
> 
> \Device\Harddisk2\DP(1)0x7e00-0x1c9f7f4600+c (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk2\DR10           (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk2\Partition0     (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\Harddisk2\DR10
> \Device\Harddisk2\Partition1     (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\HarddiskVolume9
> 
> ---------- \Device\Harddisk3 ----------
> 
> \Device\Harddisk3\DP(1)0x7e00-0x2543150400+d (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk3\DR11           (Device)
> \Device\Harddisk3\Partition0     (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\Harddisk3\DR11
> \Device\Harddisk3\Partition1     (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\HarddiskVolume10
> 
> ---------- Partition Table Info Disk 0 ----------
> 
> 
>           29,186 Cylinders
>              255 Tracks/Cylinder
>               63 Sectors/Track
>              512 Bytes/Sector
>               12 MediaType
>      468,873,090 Sectors (total)
>  240,063,022,080 Bytes (total)
>      234,436,545 KB
>          228,942 MB
>            223.6 GB
> 
>                0 StartingOffset
>  240,067,805,184 PartitionLength
>                0 HiddenSectors
>                0 PartitionNumber
>                0 PartitionType
>                0 BootIndicator
>                0 RecognizedPartition
>                0 RewritePartition
> 
>              MBR PartitionStyle
>               28 PartitionCount
>         1d641d63 Signature
> 
>         Starting        Partition     Hidden       Total  Partition
> Partition       Boot Recognized    Rewrite
>   Offset (bytes)   Length (bytes)    Sectors     Sectors     Number
> Type (HEX)  Indicator  Partition  Partition
> 
>           32,256   20,974,431,744         63  40,965,687          0
> 0x07          1          1          0
>   20,974,464,000  219,080,332,800 40,965,750 427,891,275          1
> 0x05          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0          2
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0          3
> 0x00          0          0          0
>   20,974,496,256   10,487,199,744         63  20,482,812          4
> 0x07          0          1          0
>   31,461,696,000   15,726,735,360 20,482,875  30,716,280          5
> 0x05          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0          6
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0          7
> 0x00          0          0          0
>   31,461,728,256   15,726,703,104         63  30,716,217          8
> 0x07          0          1          0
>   47,188,431,360   52,427,934,720 51,199,155 102,398,310          9
> 0x05          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0         10
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0         11
> 0x00          0          0          0
>   47,188,463,616   52,427,902,464         63 102,398,247         12
> 0x07          0          1          0
>   99,616,366,080   94,368,637,440 153,597,465 184,313,745         13
> 0x05          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0         14
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0         15
> 0x00          0          0          0
>   99,616,398,336   94,368,605,184         63 184,313,682         16
> 0x07          0          1          0
>  193,985,003,520   13,629,288,960 337,911,210  26,619,705         17
> 0x05          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0         18
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0         19
> 0x00          0          0          0
>  193,985,035,776   13,629,256,704         63  26,619,642         20
> 0x07          0          1          0
>  207,614,292,480   32,440,504,320 364,530,915  63,360,360         21
> 0x05          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0         22
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0         23
> 0x00          0          0          0
>  207,614,324,736   32,440,472,064         63  63,360,297         24
> 0x07          0          1          0
>                0                0          0           0         25
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0         26
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0         27
> 0x00          0          0          0
> 
>  240,063,022,080 Bytes (468873090 sectors) Geometric size
>  240,067,805,184 Bytes (468882432 sectors) True size (measured)
>  240,067,805,184 Bytes (468882432 sectors) Reported size (Partition0)
>                0 Bytes (       0 sectors) missing/wasted
> 
> ---------- Partition Table Info Disk 1 ----------
> 
> 
>           14,589 Cylinders
>              255 Tracks/Cylinder
>               63 Sectors/Track
>              512 Bytes/Sector
>               12 MediaType
>      234,372,285 Sectors (total)
>  119,998,609,920 Bytes (total)
>      117,186,143 KB
>          114,440 MB
>            111.8 GB
> 
>                0 StartingOffset
>  120,000,000,000 PartitionLength
>                0 HiddenSectors
>                0 PartitionNumber
>                0 PartitionType
>                0 BootIndicator
>                0 RecognizedPartition
>                0 RewritePartition
> 
>              MBR PartitionStyle
>                4 PartitionCount
>         bdda2981 Signature
> 
>         Starting        Partition     Hidden       Total  Partition
> Partition       Boot Recognized    Rewrite
>   Offset (bytes)   Length (bytes)    Sectors     Sectors     Number
> Type (HEX)  Indicator  Partition  Partition
> 
>           32,256  119,990,352,384         63 234,356,157          0
> 0x07          0          1          0
>                0                0          0           0          1
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0          2
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0          3
> 0x00          0          0          0
> 
>  119,998,609,920 Bytes (234372285 sectors) Geometric size
>  120,000,000,000 Bytes (234375000 sectors) True size (measured)
>  120,000,000,000 Bytes (234375000 sectors) Reported size (Partition0)
>                0 Bytes (       0 sectors) missing/wasted
> 
> ---------- Partition Table Info Disk 2 ----------
> 
> 
>           14,946 Cylinders
>              255 Tracks/Cylinder
>               63 Sectors/Track
>              512 Bytes/Sector
>               12 MediaType
>      240,107,490 Sectors (total)
>  122,935,034,880 Bytes (total)
>      120,053,745 KB
>          117,240 MB
>            114.5 GB
> 
>                0 StartingOffset
>  122,942,324,736 PartitionLength
>                0 HiddenSectors
>                0 PartitionNumber
>                0 PartitionType
>                0 BootIndicator
>                0 RecognizedPartition
>                0 RewritePartition
> 
>              MBR PartitionStyle
>                4 PartitionCount
>         e4dae4da Signature
> 
>         Starting        Partition     Hidden       Total  Partition
> Partition       Boot Recognized    Rewrite
>   Offset (bytes)   Length (bytes)    Sectors     Sectors     Number
> Type (HEX)  Indicator  Partition  Partition
> 
>           32,256  122,935,002,624         63 240,107,427          0
> 0x07          0          1          0
>                0                0          0           0          1
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0          2
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0          3
> 0x00          0          0          0
> 
>  122,935,034,880 Bytes (240107490 sectors) Geometric size
>  122,942,324,736 Bytes (240121728 sectors) True size (measured)
>  122,942,324,736 Bytes (240121728 sectors) Reported size (Partition0)
>                0 Bytes (       0 sectors) missing/wasted
> 
> ---------- Partition Table Info Disk 3 ----------
> 
> 
>           19,457 Cylinders
>              255 Tracks/Cylinder
>               63 Sectors/Track
>              512 Bytes/Sector
>               12 MediaType
>      312,576,705 Sectors (total)
>  160,039,272,960 Bytes (total)
>      156,288,353 KB
>          152,625 MB
>            149.0 GB
> 
>                0 StartingOffset
>  160,041,885,696 PartitionLength
>                0 HiddenSectors
>                0 PartitionNumber
>                0 PartitionType
>                0 BootIndicator
>                0 RecognizedPartition
>                0 RewritePartition
> 
>              MBR PartitionStyle
>                4 PartitionCount
>         6aacc79b Signature
> 
>         Starting        Partition     Hidden       Total  Partition
> Partition       Boot Recognized    Rewrite
>   Offset (bytes)   Length (bytes)    Sectors     Sectors     Number
> Type (HEX)  Indicator  Partition  Partition
> 
>           32,256  160,039,240,704         63 312,576,642          0
> 0x07          0          1          0
>                0                0          0           0          1
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0          2
> 0x00          0          0          0
>                0                0          0           0          3
> 0x00          0          0          0
> 
>  160,039,272,960 Bytes (312576705 sectors) Geometric size
>  160,041,885,696 Bytes (312581808 sectors) True size (measured)
>  160,041,885,696 Bytes (312581808 sectors) Reported size (Partition0)
>                0 Bytes (       0 sectors) missing/wasted
> 
> ---------- DMIO Kernel List ----------
> 
> Basic-info: version=21 maxspecio=512 maxio=512 maxkio=2048
> Ktrans-state: dg=0.0 pendtid=0.0 state=UNKNOWN
> #
> # Kmem-regions:
> #
> #
> # Disks: (cnt: 0)
> #
> #
> # Devices: (cnt: 0)
> #
> #
> # Groups: (cnt: 1)
> #
> Group NULLDG: iid=0.0 id=
>   diskset=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>   configtid=0.0 logsize=0
>   kflag=()
>   vflag=(created|notempdb|noautoreimport|secondary)
> # Group-Objects: (cnt: 0)
> # End-group: NULLDG
> 
> ---------- LDM Disk Header Harddisk0 ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- LDM Disk Header Harddisk1 ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- LDM Disk Header Harddisk2 ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- LDM Disk Header Harddisk3 ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- LDM Disk Config Harddisk0 ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- LDM Disk Config Harddisk1 ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- LDM Disk Config Harddisk2 ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- LDM Disk Config Harddisk3 ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- LDM Disk KLOG Harddisk0 ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- LDM Disk KLOG Harddisk1 ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- LDM Disk KLOG Harddisk2 ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- LDM Disk KLOG Harddisk3 ----------
> 
> ERROR: scan operation failed:
> 	A format error was found in the private region of the disk
> 
> ---------- DMAdmin Simple Query ----------
> 
> 
> ---------- DMAdmin Verbose Query ----------
> 
> 


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