Raid 0 won't work anymore
In May of 2001 I purchased and set up a Promise fasttrak 100 controller
along with 2 IBM 60gxp 40 gig HD's running raid 0, surpisingly with heavy usage all has gone well until recently. I can't boot into windows anymore, when I boot into the promise fast build utility it tells me one of the drives is off line, I tried switching the ribbon cables, power supply lines etc but still no luck. I ran the (latest) IBM DFT 32 ver 408B utility which would lock up towards the end of the mechanical test in the basic and advanced mode on both drives so I removed the Fasttrack controller and connected the hard drives to the MB and ran the basic and advanced test on both HD's several times and the results were great, both completed all testing with no errors. What are your thoughts? Does this mean the Promise controller conked out, the motherboard may have issues or there may be a problem with one of the HD's that the test isn't picking up? also the MB is an ASUS P3B-F Rick |
Raid 0 won't work anymore
Previously Rick wrote:
In May of 2001 I purchased and set up a Promise fasttrak 100 controller along with 2 IBM 60gxp 40 gig HD's running raid 0, surpisingly with heavy usage all has gone well until recently. I can't boot into windows anymore, when I boot into the promise fast build utility it tells me one of the drives is off line, I tried switching the ribbon cables, power supply lines etc but still no luck. I ran the (latest) IBM DFT 32 ver 408B utility which would lock up towards the end of the mechanical test in the basic and advanced mode on both drives so I removed the Fasttrack controller and connected the hard drives to the MB and ran the basic and advanced test on both HD's several times and the results were great, both completed all testing with no errors. What are your thoughts? Does this mean the Promise controller conked out, the motherboard may have issues or there may be a problem with one of the HD's that the test isn't picking up? also the MB is an ASUS P3B-F I would suspect the drive. It may have a problem that causes it to react slower to commands, which in turn may be too slow for the contoller. A few hard to read sectors (typical way the "deathstars" start dying) would do it... Arno |
Raid 0 won't work anymore
Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Rick wrote: In May of 2001 I purchased and set up a Promise fasttrak 100 controller along with 2 IBM 60gxp 40 gig HD's running raid 0, surpisingly with heavy usage all has gone well until recently. I can't boot into windows anymore, when I boot into the promise fast build utility it tells me one of the drives is off line, I tried switching the ribbon cables, power supply lines etc but still no luck. I ran the (latest) IBM DFT 32 ver 408B utility which would lock up towards the end of the mechanical test in the basic and advanced mode on both drives so I removed the Fasttrack controller and connected the hard drives to the MB and ran the basic and advanced test on both HD's several times and the results were great, both completed all testing with no errors. What are your thoughts? Does this mean the Promise controller conked out, the motherboard may have issues or there may be a problem with one of the HD's that the test isn't picking up? also the MB is an ASUS P3B-F I would suspect the drive. It may have a problem that causes it to react slower to commands, which in turn may be too slow for the contoller. A few hard to read sectors (typical way the "deathstars" start dying) would do it... Arno Thanks, I'll just setup the better HD as a single, anyway if all goes well I'll be totally rebuilding by fall just hate to loose the raid 0 in the meantime. Rick |
Raid 0 won't work anymore
Previously Rick wrote:
Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Rick wrote: In May of 2001 I purchased and set up a Promise fasttrak 100 controller along with 2 IBM 60gxp 40 gig HD's running raid 0, surpisingly with heavy usage all has gone well until recently. I can't boot into windows anymore, when I boot into the promise fast build utility it tells me one of the drives is off line, I tried switching the ribbon cables, power supply lines etc but still no luck. I ran the (latest) IBM DFT 32 ver 408B utility which would lock up towards the end of the mechanical test in the basic and advanced mode on both drives so I removed the Fasttrack controller and connected the hard drives to the MB and ran the basic and advanced test on both HD's several times and the results were great, both completed all testing with no errors. What are your thoughts? Does this mean the Promise controller conked out, the motherboard may have issues or there may be a problem with one of the HD's that the test isn't picking up? also the MB is an ASUS P3B-F I would suspect the drive. It may have a problem that causes it to react slower to commands, which in turn may be too slow for the contoller. A few hard to read sectors (typical way the "deathstars" start dying) would do it... Arno Thanks, I'll just setup the better HD as a single, anyway if all goes well I'll be totally rebuilding by fall just hate to loose the raid 0 in the meantime. Ok, here is one thing you can try if you want to save the data: Copy the suspect disk sector-wise to another one that is the same size or larger. If you are really lucky, that other disk will work instead of the problematic one. Arno |
Raid 0 won't work anymore
Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Rick wrote: Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Rick wrote: In May of 2001 I purchased and set up a Promise fasttrak 100 controller along with 2 IBM 60gxp 40 gig HD's running raid 0, surpisingly with heavy usage all has gone well until recently. I can't boot into windows anymore, when I boot into the promise fast build utility it tells me one of the drives is off line, I tried switching the ribbon cables, power supply lines etc but still no luck. I ran the (latest) IBM DFT 32 ver 408B utility which would lock up towards the end of the mechanical test in the basic and advanced mode on both drives so I removed the Fasttrack controller and connected the hard drives to the MB and ran the basic and advanced test on both HD's several times and the results were great, both completed all testing with no errors. What are your thoughts? Does this mean the Promise controller conked out, the motherboard may have issues or there may be a problem with one of the HD's that the test isn't picking up? also the MB is an ASUS P3B-F I would suspect the drive. It may have a problem that causes it to react slower to commands, which in turn may be too slow for the contoller. A few hard to read sectors (typical way the "deathstars" start dying) would do it... Arno Thanks, I'll just setup the better HD as a single, anyway if all goes well I'll be totally rebuilding by fall just hate to loose the raid 0 in the meantime. Ok, here is one thing you can try if you want to save the data: Copy the suspect disk sector-wise to another one that is the same size or larger. If you are really lucky, that other disk will work instead of the problematic one. Arno Thanks, I was able to copy the failing drive to another I had laying around using the free version of HD Clone (basic) which worked just fine, when I reconnected to the Promise controller it booted up and is running as if nothing ever happened. Rick |
Raid 0 won't work anymore
Previously Rick wrote:
Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Rick wrote: Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Rick wrote: In May of 2001 I purchased and set up a Promise fasttrak 100 controller along with 2 IBM 60gxp 40 gig HD's running raid 0, surpisingly with heavy usage all has gone well until recently. I can't boot into windows anymore, when I boot into the promise fast build utility it tells me one of the drives is off line, I tried switching the ribbon cables, power supply lines etc but still no luck. I ran the (latest) IBM DFT 32 ver 408B utility which would lock up towards the end of the mechanical test in the basic and advanced mode on both drives so I removed the Fasttrack controller and connected the hard drives to the MB and ran the basic and advanced test on both HD's several times and the results were great, both completed all testing with no errors. What are your thoughts? Does this mean the Promise controller conked out, the motherboard may have issues or there may be a problem with one of the HD's that the test isn't picking up? also the MB is an ASUS P3B-F I would suspect the drive. It may have a problem that causes it to react slower to commands, which in turn may be too slow for the contoller. A few hard to read sectors (typical way the "deathstars" start dying) would do it... Arno Thanks, I'll just setup the better HD as a single, anyway if all goes well I'll be totally rebuilding by fall just hate to loose the raid 0 in the meantime. Ok, here is one thing you can try if you want to save the data: Copy the suspect disk sector-wise to another one that is the same size or larger. If you are really lucky, that other disk will work instead of the problematic one. Arno Thanks, I was able to copy the failing drive to another I had laying around using the free version of HD Clone (basic) which worked just fine, when I reconnected to the Promise controller it booted up and is running as if nothing ever happened. Very good! Arno |
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