SATA Problem?

[chez]

Okay, this could get a bit long-winded, but I really would appreciate any help you guys can offer

Having received my new dual Xeon server, I thought I would save myself some time by encoding some movies on it.

I moved all of the complete ISOs I had recently ripped onto one (virtually brand new) SATA drive and took that drive out of my PC and installed it in my server.

I then logged onto the server and encoded one of the ISOs no problems...

I then opened another ISO using DVD Shrink and got a blue screen (reporting an error in aarich.sys)

I rebooted and tried the same thing (with the same file), only to get another BSOD (not sure of the exact error this time)

Viewing the Eventlog shows a number of these errors -

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 15
Date: 26/10/2004
Time: 20:24:49
User: N/A
Computer: PEDGE1800
Description:
The device, \Device\Harddisk1, is not ready for access yet.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 04 00 68 00 01 00 ba 00 ..h...º.
0008: 00 00 00 00 0f 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 04 01 00 00 9d 00 00 c0 ....?..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: b2 5b 00 00 00 00 00 00 ²[......
0030: ff ff ff ff 01 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 0a 00 00 01 00 @.......
0040: b4 20 0a 12 82 01 20 40 ´ ..‚. @
0048: 00 10 00 00 3c 00 00 00 ....<...
0050: 00 20 16 81 18 bc 26 82 . .?.¼&‚
0058: 00 00 00 00 48 76 23 82 ....Hv#‚
0060: b0 03 23 82 37 00 5e 00 °.#‚7.^.
0068: 2a 00 00 5e 00 37 00 00 *..^.7..
0070: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0078: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........


Followed by this error -


Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Ftdisk
Event Category: Disk
Event ID: 57
Date: 26/10/2004
Time: 20:24:49
User: N/A
Computer: PEDGE1800
Description:
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 be 00 ......¾.
0008: 02 00 00 00 39 00 04 80 ....9..€
0010: 00 00 00 00 9d 00 00 c0 ....?..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........


Followed by some more of each error followed by this -


Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Ntfs
Event Category: None
Event ID: 50
Date: 26/10/2004
Time: 20:25:12
User: N/A
Computer: PEDGE1800
Description:
{Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the file . The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 04 00 04 00 02 00 52 00 ......R.
0008: 00 00 00 00 32 00 04 80 ....2..€
0010: 00 00 00 00 9d 00 00 c0 ....?..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 9d 00 00 c0 ?..À



and this -


Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 26/10/2004
Time: 20:25:12
User: N/A
Computer: PEDGE1800
Description:
Application popup: Windows - Delayed


and this -


Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 26/10/2004
Time: 20:25:13
User: N/A
Computer: PEDGE1800
Description:
Application popup: Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to save all the data for the file F:\$Mft. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


and then loads of the first error again.

Whenever I try to open the same file I get the same thing over and over, however I copied it over to another machine and DVD shrink opened it fine.

The rest of the files in the directory also appear to be OK (I have verified this by copying them to another PC and trying to open them in DVD Shrink).

What could have caused this? I am scared to use this drive in the server now for fear of losing more data.

I’m confused because I don’t see how it can be the drive – it was working fine in my other PC and still lets me copy stuff off of it. I have run chkdsk on it as well as the Western Digital tools and they report no errors.

The only thing I can think of is that the SATA drivers are a bit flaky, but I’m really not sure about this….

I am using DVD Shrink v3.2 and the machine is a Dell Poweredge 1800 Server with a Western Digital 200Gb SATA drive using the onboard Adaptec CERC 2 channel SATA RAID controller.

Any advice/thoughts more than welcome!

Thanks
Chez

[chez]

Anyone??

[DaftpuNk]

do that one on your other box and carry on with the rest?

[chez]

My server has since been very unstable... Ican encode one and then I have to reboot before it'll do another

I have since changed from Server2003 to XP and it is still very unstable...

I think it has to be something to do with the HDD (or the onboard SATA controller/drivers)...

[BioHAZARD]

hi chez

ive had same sorta probs with both my Sata drives, except the error on mine were a bit more servere (total loss of use with both and wont hold any info on either of them.....somthing along the lines of hard drive damaged unable to format!!!!!!

been onto western about it and there looking into it for me, plus changing both drives no questions asked

it could be something as simple as a hardware level - might even be a setting in the BIOS that looks right but for some bizarre reason needs to look 'wrong' if that makes sense either that or updated bios if one is avaliable

[chez]

hi chez

ive had same sorta probs with both my Sata drives, except the error on mine were a bit more servere (total loss of use with both and wont hold any info on either of them.....somthing along the lines of hard drive damaged unable to format!!!!!!

been onto western about it and there looking into it for me, plus changing both drives no questions asked

don't really help you, but might be worth giving western a try

I'm fairly sure it's not the drive, as my windows environment is unstable and this is installed on a separate drive..

[DaftpuNk]

www.memtest86.com <-- run that to begin with to test the RAM, and see if that's happy.

Due to the OS change i presume you've already formatted, so I can only really suggest running prime95's torture test to see if that's stable? :X

[dshepsman]

ive been having almost the same prob with my SATA seagate barracuda.
every time a go to my movie folder, its comes up with a "cannot read/access memory at [insert memory address here] .... etc" error, and it seems like a fairly large chunk thats died
have done a check disk and says there are (bad/corrupted?) (files/clusters?)<- cant remember the exact msg, it was a few days ago...
is it worth formatting the disk again? seems a shame as ive only had it a few weeks....

[Lee H]

have you updated the serial ATA drivers with newer ones than what are supplied with the motherboard ?

Also flashing the bios with a new version could help as they have newer SATA bioses in the newer versions going on whats happened with previous updates from Abit.

[dshepsman]

no, i havent updated the drivers. i'll give it a go.
i'll try flashing the bios as well... hope it wont kill it in the process...