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Sata and Data Corruption
My system continues to have data corruption issues with the large
drives. Initially, Windows XP gave me a "Windows - Write Delay Error" on an external 200 GB hard drive. The hard drive in question is a Seagate 200 GB 7200 rpm ATA in a Speeze enclosure 350ufl (firewire). After running most software utilities (defrag, chkdisk, and anti-virus) and re-partition some other drives, the error message went away. I continued my research about the scenario and focused on using my other two internal 200 GB Western Digital SATA drives. Shortly thereafter, data corruption became apparent on the SATA drive. Now, this situation made me FREAK OUT. I have never experience data corruption in my 15 years using computers. The A7NX8 board has been in use for over a year without a major problem like data corruption. My data is highly sensitive and backups are only so useful. Imagine re-digitize hours of footage. The time spent on this problem does not allow me to make money and purchase more upgrades. Upon further research (Links below), the problems relates to these particular scenarios. System Memory greater than 512 Meg. (1 gigabyte of RAM is common) Large NTFS disk volumes. And multiple large volumes. (60-100 gigabyte hard drives possibly in RAID arrays) AGP graphics with large AGP resource requirements (AGP aperture greater than default) Large file transfers Yes, these conditions apply to my setup. In addition, A7NX8 and the Silicon Image SATA controller 3112 are prone to this scenario. Not with standing, some people with ATI 9800 video card have experienced this scenario as well. Thing I have done - Flash the A7N8X bios to 1007 - Upgrade the SATA drivers (bios v4.2.27) - System Cache option is NOT selected for Memory usage. - Adjusted the SystemPages (generated more problems for me) - Read countless messages on the topic - Nothing seems to work Fortunately, my system boots from an old 60 GB IDE. The data corruption only applies to the large drives over 137 gigs whether from Western Digital or Seagate. The Seagate drive could be external or internal, yet experience data corruption. These problems seem to be with Windows XP and badly written drivers. Microsoft shoves blame on the component vendors. The component vendors blame the software developers. But I plan to hold each vendor responsible until the problem is resolved to my expectation. I plan on posting on every forum and newsgroup; so people know the risks associated with large drive and SATA. Excuse my crossposting, but if one person avoids this situation then I have served my duty. Please if you have any insight let me know. First, how do I recovery data from these drives? Second, how do I prevent data corruption and transfer large files? Third, how I test to ensure reliability? Delayed Write Failed on USB 2.0 hard disk http://forums.viaarena.com/messagevi...&STARTPAGE= 1 Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4217.html Delayed Write Failed / Error - FINALLY SORTED OUT! http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/22061/ OS - Windows XP Pro SP 1 (Full install) | Processor - Athlon Barton 2600+ | Motherboard - Asus A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe | Bios - 1007Dv2.0-Uber | Power Supply - Antec 430W True Power | CoolMaster WaveMaster | Memory - 2x 512 MB DDR PC2700: Crucial and Kingston ValueRam | Hard Drive - 60GB and 30GB Western Digital 7200 rpm, 2 x 200 GB Western Digital SATA 7200 rpm | Lite-On DVD+-R/RW | Sony CRX220E | Video Card - Matrox G400 AGP | Sound - Soundblaster Live! Platinum | Modem - Zoom Faxmodem v.42 (3025) Silicon.Image.Serial.ATA.driver.v1.0.0.29 nVidia nForce MCP2 IDE Contoller |
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Robert Neville wrote:
My system continues to have data corruption issues with the large drives. Initially, Windows XP gave me a "Windows - Write Delay Error" on an external 200 GB hard drive. The hard drive in question is a Seagate 200 GB 7200 rpm ATA in a Speeze enclosure 350ufl (firewire). After running most software utilities (defrag, chkdisk, and anti-virus) and re-partition some other drives, the error message went away. I continued my research about the scenario and focused on using my other two internal 200 GB Western Digital SATA drives. [...] These problems seem to be with Windows XP and badly written drivers. Microsoft shoves blame on the component vendors. The component vendors blame the software developers. I had something like this with firewire under Linux. However I did not get corruption, but multiple interface timouts and the kernel dropping the disk because it said it was unusable. I did not have any problems with the VIA-internal SATA do far. Data-corruption due to bad bits is very unlikely with SATA. Have you looked at the specific type of corruption? Is it wrong bits, missing sectors, whole sectors that are wrong, short writes or something else? Arno -- For email address: lastname AT tik DOT ee DOT ethz DOT ch GnuPG: ID:1E25338F FP:0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" - Tacitus |
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"Robert Neville" wrote in message ... My system continues to have data corruption issues with the large drives. Initially, Windows XP gave me a "Windows - Write Delay Error" on an external 200 GB hard drive. The hard drive in question is a Seagate 200 GB 7200 rpm ATA in a Speeze enclosure 350ufl (firewire). After running most software utilities (defrag, chkdisk, and anti-virus) and re-partition some other drives, the error message went away. I continued my research about the scenario and focused on using my other two internal 200 GB Western Digital SATA drives. Shortly thereafter, data corruption became apparent on the SATA drive. Now, this situation made me FREAK OUT. I have never experience data corruption in my 15 years using computers. The A7NX8 board has been in use for over a year without a major problem like data corruption. My data is highly sensitive and backups are only so useful. Imagine re-digitize hours of footage. The time spent on this problem does not allow me to make money and purchase more upgrades. Upon further research (Links below), the problems relates to these particular scenarios. System Memory greater than 512 Meg. (1 gigabyte of RAM is common) Large NTFS disk volumes. And multiple large volumes. (60-100 gigabyte hard drives possibly in RAID arrays) AGP graphics with large AGP resource requirements (AGP aperture greater than default) Large file transfers Yes, these conditions apply to my setup. In addition, A7NX8 and the Silicon Image SATA controller 3112 are prone to this scenario. Not with standing, some people with ATI 9800 video card have experienced this scenario as well. Thing I have done - Flash the A7N8X bios to 1007 - Upgrade the SATA drivers (bios v4.2.27) - System Cache option is NOT selected for Memory usage. - Adjusted the SystemPages (generated more problems for me) - Read countless messages on the topic - Nothing seems to work Fortunately, my system boots from an old 60 GB IDE. The data corruption only applies to the large drives over 137 gigs whether from Western Digital or Seagate. The Seagate drive could be external or internal, yet experience data corruption. These problems seem to be with Windows XP and badly written drivers. Microsoft shoves blame on the component vendors. The component vendors blame the software developers. But I plan to hold each vendor responsible until the problem is resolved to my expectation. I plan on posting on every forum and newsgroup; so people know the risks associated with large drive and SATA. Excuse my crossposting, but if one person avoids this situation then I have served my duty. Please if you have any insight let me know. First, how do I recovery data from these drives? Second, how do I prevent data corruption and transfer large files? Third, how I test to ensure reliability? Delayed Write Failed on USB 2.0 hard disk http://forums.viaarena.com/messagevi...&STARTPAGE= 1 Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4217.html Delayed Write Failed / Error - FINALLY SORTED OUT! http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/22061/ OS - Windows XP Pro SP 1 (Full install) | Processor - Athlon Barton 2600+ | Motherboard - Asus A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe | Bios - 1007Dv2.0-Uber | Power Supply - Antec 430W True Power | CoolMaster WaveMaster | Memory - 2x 512 MB DDR PC2700: Crucial and Kingston ValueRam | Hard Drive - 60GB and 30GB Western Digital 7200 rpm, 2 x 200 GB Western Digital SATA 7200 rpm | Lite-On DVD+-R/RW | Sony CRX220E | Video Card - Matrox G400 AGP | Sound - Soundblaster Live! Platinum | Modem - Zoom Faxmodem v.42 (3025) Silicon.Image.Serial.ATA.driver.v1.0.0.29 nVidia nForce MCP2 IDE Contoller Hi I have the same sort of problem, did not resolve it though. My Gigabyte board has a SATA and IDE Raid as well as the "standard" IDE disc setup, all the controllers other than the "standard" give repeated data corruption (seems to be only data read). My poor work around was to not use them! As to testing, I used a set of large files and run a MD5 checksum routine from a batch file that has the "real" MD5 in it as a parameter to the MD5.exe this reports an error if they dont match. I just left it running for a few hours and several of the files reported MD5 miss match but not the same files all the time ie some would read ok on one pass but not the next. If you want my two DOS batch files let me know ( they are short and simple may not be the best bit of work but they do work!) send me an email address or I can post them here. regards ted |
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:16:08 -0700, Robert Neville
wrote: with standing, some people with ATI 9800 video card have experienced this scenario as well. Anytime you mention ATI9800 and hard drives, the +12 volt power supply comes to mind |
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Try memory/IO test http://home.earthlink.net/~alegr/download/memtest.htm
Run it under Windows with I/O test enabled. See if you can find conditions when it fails or succeeds. Are you sure the enclosure supports disks137 GB, though? "Robert Neville" wrote in message ... My system continues to have data corruption issues with the large drives. Initially, Windows XP gave me a "Windows - Write Delay Error" on an external 200 GB hard drive. The hard drive in question is a Seagate 200 GB 7200 rpm ATA in a Speeze enclosure 350ufl (firewire). After running most software utilities (defrag, chkdisk, and anti-virus) and re-partition some other drives, the error message went away. I continued my research about the scenario and focused on using my other two internal 200 GB Western Digital SATA drives. Shortly thereafter, data corruption became apparent on the SATA drive. Now, this situation made me FREAK OUT. I have never experience data corruption in my 15 years using computers. The A7NX8 board has been in use for over a year without a major problem like data corruption. My data is highly sensitive and backups are only so useful. Imagine re-digitize hours of footage. The time spent on this problem does not allow me to make money and purchase more upgrades. Upon further research (Links below), the problems relates to these particular scenarios. System Memory greater than 512 Meg. (1 gigabyte of RAM is common) Large NTFS disk volumes. And multiple large volumes. (60-100 gigabyte hard drives possibly in RAID arrays) AGP graphics with large AGP resource requirements (AGP aperture greater than default) Large file transfers Yes, these conditions apply to my setup. In addition, A7NX8 and the Silicon Image SATA controller 3112 are prone to this scenario. Not with standing, some people with ATI 9800 video card have experienced this scenario as well. Thing I have done - Flash the A7N8X bios to 1007 - Upgrade the SATA drivers (bios v4.2.27) - System Cache option is NOT selected for Memory usage. - Adjusted the SystemPages (generated more problems for me) - Read countless messages on the topic - Nothing seems to work Fortunately, my system boots from an old 60 GB IDE. The data corruption only applies to the large drives over 137 gigs whether from Western Digital or Seagate. The Seagate drive could be external or internal, yet experience data corruption. These problems seem to be with Windows XP and badly written drivers. Microsoft shoves blame on the component vendors. The component vendors blame the software developers. But I plan to hold each vendor responsible until the problem is resolved to my expectation. I plan on posting on every forum and newsgroup; so people know the risks associated with large drive and SATA. Excuse my crossposting, but if one person avoids this situation then I have served my duty. Please if you have any insight let me know. First, how do I recovery data from these drives? Second, how do I prevent data corruption and transfer large files? Third, how I test to ensure reliability? Delayed Write Failed on USB 2.0 hard disk http://forums.viaarena.com/messagevi...&STARTPAGE= 1 Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4217.html Delayed Write Failed / Error - FINALLY SORTED OUT! http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/22061/ OS - Windows XP Pro SP 1 (Full install) | Processor - Athlon Barton 2600+ | Motherboard - Asus A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe | Bios - 1007Dv2.0-Uber | Power Supply - Antec 430W True Power | CoolMaster WaveMaster | Memory - 2x 512 MB DDR PC2700: Crucial and Kingston ValueRam | Hard Drive - 60GB and 30GB Western Digital 7200 rpm, 2 x 200 GB Western Digital SATA 7200 rpm | Lite-On DVD+-R/RW | Sony CRX220E | Video Card - Matrox G400 AGP | Sound - Soundblaster Live! Platinum | Modem - Zoom Faxmodem v.42 (3025) Silicon.Image.Serial.ATA.driver.v1.0.0.29 nVidia nForce MCP2 IDE Contoller |
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Previously ted msn wrote:
"Robert Neville" wrote in message ... My system continues to have data corruption issues with the large drives. Initially, Windows XP gave me a "Windows - Write Delay Error" [...] Silicon.Image.Serial.ATA.driver.v1.0.0.29 nVidia nForce MCP2 IDE Contoller Hi I have the same sort of problem, did not resolve it though. My Gigabyte board has a SATA and IDE Raid as well as the "standard" IDE disc setup, all the controllers other than the "standard" give repeated data corruption (seems to be only data read). My poor work around was to not use them! As to testing, I used a set of large files and run a MD5 checksum routine from a batch file that has the "real" MD5 in it as a parameter to the MD5.exe this reports an error if they dont match. I just left it running for a few hours and several of the files reported MD5 miss match but not the same files all the time ie some would read ok on one pass but not the next. If you want my two DOS batch files let me know ( they are short and simple may not be the best bit of work but they do work!) send me an email address or I can post them here. I had this problem with a defective RAM some years ago. Maybe the bus-interface of the SATA/IDE RAID controller is just not up to spec? MD5 sums are a very good way to check for corruptions (on Linux use "md5sum names" to generate and "md5sum -c file with list" to compare). I have used this method with very good succes for several years now. Arno -- For email address: lastname AT tik DOT ee DOT ethz DOT ch GnuPG: ID:1E25338F FP:0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" - Tacitus |
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"ted msn" wrote in
: As to testing, I used a set of large files and run a MD5 checksum routine from a batch file that has the "real" MD5 in it as a parameter to the MD5.exe this reports an error if they dont match. I just left it running for a few hours and several of the files reported MD5 miss match but not the same files all the time ie some would read ok on one pass but not the next. If you want my two DOS batch files let me know ( they are short and simple may not be the best bit of work but they do work!) send me an email address or I can post them here. I'd be interested in seeing your batch files for testing. |
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Here's a response from Asus's Lee Broughton to my situation.
Sir if you will do a search on google for 137 gb windows limitation you will see that this is actually an OS problem, you will also find the registry fix needed to reolve the problem you are having. Please do not respond to this email if you still need assistance please contact our tech support office at 502-995-0883 and give the technician who picks up this case number. I found his tone arrogant. Why could he not provide a link to the registry fix? Cuz it doesn't work anymore. Here's the backup. http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2601 This registry hack is no longer needed (and indeed no longer works) if you update ATAPI.SYS http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;303013 note also, that there is a possibility of data corruption with suspend and hibernate modes and ATAPI.SYS versions prior to 1135, so you should use the updated ATAPI.SYS in preference to the reg hack method in any case. http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;331958 This fix has been working for me so far (along with the bios and SATA driver updates). On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:16:08 -0700, Robert Neville wrote: My system continues to have data corruption issues with the large drives. Initially, Windows XP gave me a "Windows - Write Delay Error" on an external 200 GB hard drive. The hard drive in question is a Seagate 200 GB 7200 rpm ATA in a Speeze enclosure 350ufl (firewire). After running most software utilities (defrag, chkdisk, and anti-virus) and re-partition some other drives, the error message went away. I continued my research about the scenario and focused on using my other two internal 200 GB Western Digital SATA drives. Shortly thereafter, data corruption became apparent on the SATA drive. Now, this situation made me FREAK OUT. I have never experience data corruption in my 15 years using computers. The A7NX8 board has been in use for over a year without a major problem like data corruption. My data is highly sensitive and backups are only so useful. Imagine re-digitize hours of footage. The time spent on this problem does not allow me to make money and purchase more upgrades. Upon further research (Links below), the problems relates to these particular scenarios. System Memory greater than 512 Meg. (1 gigabyte of RAM is common) Large NTFS disk volumes. And multiple large volumes. (60-100 gigabyte hard drives possibly in RAID arrays) AGP graphics with large AGP resource requirements (AGP aperture greater than default) Large file transfers Yes, these conditions apply to my setup. In addition, A7NX8 and the Silicon Image SATA controller 3112 are prone to this scenario. Not with standing, some people with ATI 9800 video card have experienced this scenario as well. Thing I have done - Flash the A7N8X bios to 1007 - Upgrade the SATA drivers (bios v4.2.27) - System Cache option is NOT selected for Memory usage. - Adjusted the SystemPages (generated more problems for me) - Read countless messages on the topic - Nothing seems to work Fortunately, my system boots from an old 60 GB IDE. The data corruption only applies to the large drives over 137 gigs whether from Western Digital or Seagate. The Seagate drive could be external or internal, yet experience data corruption. These problems seem to be with Windows XP and badly written drivers. Microsoft shoves blame on the component vendors. The component vendors blame the software developers. But I plan to hold each vendor responsible until the problem is resolved to my expectation. I plan on posting on every forum and newsgroup; so people know the risks associated with large drive and SATA. Excuse my crossposting, but if one person avoids this situation then I have served my duty. Please if you have any insight let me know. First, how do I recovery data from these drives? Second, how do I prevent data corruption and transfer large files? Third, how I test to ensure reliability? Delayed Write Failed on USB 2.0 hard disk http://forums.viaarena.com/messagevi...&STARTPAGE= 1 Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4217.html Delayed Write Failed / Error - FINALLY SORTED OUT! http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/22061/ OS - Windows XP Pro SP 1 (Full install) | Processor - Athlon Barton 2600+ | Motherboard - Asus A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe | Bios - 1007Dv2.0-Uber | Power Supply - Antec 430W True Power | CoolMaster WaveMaster | Memory - 2x 512 MB DDR PC2700: Crucial and Kingston ValueRam | Hard Drive - 60GB and 30GB Western Digital 7200 rpm, 2 x 200 GB Western Digital SATA 7200 rpm | Lite-On DVD+-R/RW | Sony CRX220E | Video Card - Matrox G400 AGP | Sound - Soundblaster Live! Platinum | Modem - Zoom Faxmodem v.42 (3025) Silicon.Image.Serial.ATA.driver.v1.0.0.29 nVidia nForce MCP2 IDE Contoller |
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As another poster suggested, do run (complete) memory tests.
Also try DocMemory: http://www.simmtester.com/page/products/doc/docinfo.asp It helped me in detecting memory - disk corruption when pushing memory too hard. I hate this sort of problem because you can't do much with your system. With every operation you run the risk of corrupting data. I don't think it's the 48 bit LBA issue because that only applies to IDE. Your SII controller should present itself as a SCSI controller, which clearly supports 137 GB drives. Are you sure you're not using an integrated SATA controller running under some kind of "ide legacy mode"? Only then would EnableBigLba possibly make a difference. Robert Neville wrote: My system continues to have data corruption issues with the large drives. Initially, Windows XP gave me a "Windows - Write Delay Error" on an external 200 GB hard drive. The hard drive in question is a Seagate 200 GB 7200 rpm ATA in a Speeze enclosure 350ufl (firewire). After running most software utilities (defrag, chkdisk, and anti-virus) and re-partition some other drives, the error message went away. I continued my research about the scenario and focused on using my other two internal 200 GB Western Digital SATA drives. Shortly thereafter, data corruption became apparent on the SATA drive. Now, this situation made me FREAK OUT. I have never experience data corruption in my 15 years using computers. The A7NX8 board has been in use for over a year without a major problem like data corruption. My data is highly sensitive and backups are only so useful. Imagine re-digitize hours of footage. The time spent on this problem does not allow me to make money and purchase more upgrades. Upon further research (Links below), the problems relates to these particular scenarios. System Memory greater than 512 Meg. (1 gigabyte of RAM is common) Large NTFS disk volumes. And multiple large volumes. (60-100 gigabyte hard drives possibly in RAID arrays) AGP graphics with large AGP resource requirements (AGP aperture greater than default) Large file transfers Yes, these conditions apply to my setup. In addition, A7NX8 and the Silicon Image SATA controller 3112 are prone to this scenario. Not with standing, some people with ATI 9800 video card have experienced this scenario as well. Thing I have done - Flash the A7N8X bios to 1007 - Upgrade the SATA drivers (bios v4.2.27) - System Cache option is NOT selected for Memory usage. - Adjusted the SystemPages (generated more problems for me) - Read countless messages on the topic - Nothing seems to work Fortunately, my system boots from an old 60 GB IDE. The data corruption only applies to the large drives over 137 gigs whether from Western Digital or Seagate. The Seagate drive could be external or internal, yet experience data corruption. These problems seem to be with Windows XP and badly written drivers. Microsoft shoves blame on the component vendors. The component vendors blame the software developers. But I plan to hold each vendor responsible until the problem is resolved to my expectation. I plan on posting on every forum and newsgroup; so people know the risks associated with large drive and SATA. Excuse my crossposting, but if one person avoids this situation then I have served my duty. Please if you have any insight let me know. First, how do I recovery data from these drives? Second, how do I prevent data corruption and transfer large files? Third, how I test to ensure reliability? Delayed Write Failed on USB 2.0 hard disk http://forums.viaarena.com/messagevi...&STARTPAGE= 1 Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4217.html Delayed Write Failed / Error - FINALLY SORTED OUT! http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/22061/ OS - Windows XP Pro SP 1 (Full install) | Processor - Athlon Barton 2600+ | Motherboard - Asus A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe | Bios - 1007Dv2.0-Uber | Power Supply - Antec 430W True Power | CoolMaster WaveMaster | Memory - 2x 512 MB DDR PC2700: Crucial and Kingston ValueRam | Hard Drive - 60GB and 30GB Western Digital 7200 rpm, 2 x 200 GB Western Digital SATA 7200 rpm | Lite-On DVD+-R/RW | Sony CRX220E | Video Card - Matrox G400 AGP | Sound - Soundblaster Live! Platinum | Modem - Zoom Faxmodem v.42 (3025) Silicon.Image.Serial.ATA.driver.v1.0.0.29 nVidia nForce MCP2 IDE Contoller |
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"mr potatohead" "mr potatohead" wrote in message ...
As another poster suggested, do run (complete) memory tests. Also try DocMemory: http://www.simmtester.com/page/products/doc/docinfo.asp It helped me in detecting memory - disk corruption when pushing memory too hard. I hate this sort of problem because you can't do much with your system. With every operation you run the risk of corrupting data. I don't think it's the 48 bit LBA issue because that only applies to IDE. Your SII controller should present itself as a SCSI controller, which clearly supports 137 GB drives. Are you sure you're not using an integrated SATA controller running under some kind of "ide legacy mode"? Only then would EnableBigLba possibly make a difference. Potatohead huh? How fitting that name is ...... Robert Neville wrote: My system continues to have data corruption issues with the large drives. Initially, Windows XP gave me a "Windows - Write Delay Error" on an external 200 GB hard drive. The hard drive in question is a Seagate 200 GB 7200 rpm ATA in a Speeze enclosure 350ufl (firewire). After running most software utilities (defrag, chkdisk, and anti-virus) and re-partition some other drives, the error message went away. I continued my research about the scenario and focused on using my other two internal 200 GB Western Digital SATA drives. Shortly thereafter, data corruption became apparent on the SATA drive. Now, this situation made me FREAK OUT. I have never experience data corruption in my 15 years using computers. The A7NX8 board has been in use for over a year without a major problem like data corruption. My data is highly sensitive and backups are only so useful. Imagine re-digitize hours of footage. The time spent on this problem does not allow me to make money and purchase more upgrades. Upon further research (Links below), the problems relates to these particular scenarios. System Memory greater than 512 Meg. (1 gigabyte of RAM is common) Large NTFS disk volumes. And multiple large volumes. (60-100 gigabyte hard drives possibly in RAID arrays) AGP graphics with large AGP resource requirements (AGP aperture greater than default) Large file transfers Yes, these conditions apply to my setup. In addition, A7NX8 and the Silicon Image SATA controller 3112 are prone to this scenario. Not with standing, some people with ATI 9800 video card have experienced this scenario as well. Thing I have done - Flash the A7N8X bios to 1007 - Upgrade the SATA drivers (bios v4.2.27) - System Cache option is NOT selected for Memory usage. - Adjusted the SystemPages (generated more problems for me) - Read countless messages on the topic - Nothing seems to work Fortunately, my system boots from an old 60 GB IDE. The data corruption only applies to the large drives over 137 gigs whether from Western Digital or Seagate. The Seagate drive could be external or internal, yet experience data corruption. These problems seem to be with Windows XP and badly written drivers. Microsoft shoves blame on the component vendors. The component vendors blame the software developers. But I plan to hold each vendor responsible until the problem is resolved to my expectation. I plan on posting on every forum and newsgroup; so people know the risks associated with large drive and SATA. Excuse my crossposting, but if one person avoids this situation then I have served my duty. Please if you have any insight let me know. First, how do I recovery data from these drives? Second, how do I prevent data corruption and transfer large files? Third, how I test to ensure reliability? Delayed Write Failed on USB 2.0 hard disk http://forums.viaarena.com/messagevi...&STARTPAGE= 1 Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4217.html Delayed Write Failed / Error - FINALLY SORTED OUT! http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/22061/ OS - Windows XP Pro SP 1 (Full install) | Processor - Athlon Barton 2600+ | Motherboard - Asus A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe | Bios - 1007Dv2.0-Uber | Power Supply - Antec 430W True Power | CoolMaster WaveMaster | Memory - 2x 512 MB DDR PC2700: Crucial and Kingston ValueRam | Hard Drive - 60GB and 30GB Western Digital 7200 rpm, 2 x 200 GB Western Digital SATA 7200 rpm | Lite-On DVD+-R/RW | Sony CRX220E | Video Card - Matrox G400 AGP | Sound - Soundblaster Live! Platinum | Modem - Zoom Faxmodem v.42 (3025) Silicon.Image.Serial.ATA.driver.v1.0.0.29 nVidia nForce MCP2 IDE Contoller |
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