This is a continuation of a problem I had discussed at length here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Components/Motherboards/Q_22752049.htmlSorry to open a new topic but the old topic seems to have been locked but the issue is unresolved.
Pickup up where I left off:
I have the following:
Shuttle AB06R v2.0 Motherboard
1 SATA 320gb Seagate HDD
1 SATA 200gb Seagate HDD
Promise SATA300 TX4 SATA Controller Card
Onboard Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller
I continued to have issues following the directions in the above post. The Promise card was a real pain to get working (I still can't get into a BIOS because it doesn't appear to have one flashed on the card to begin with. I don't have a floppy drive and that appears to be the only way to flash). However, it is working at the moment.
So here's what I did:
1.) I was having problems to get the Promise card to recognize both drive, it was only recognizing the 300gb drive. I Combined the two SATA drives onto the old Onboard RAID controller, set up a striped set, intialized and formatted in Windows. I left this on overnight. (This is still connected to the onboard controller).
2.) The following morning I tested transferring a 700mb file to the RAID set and it actually froze my computer up for a few seconds (worse than my intial problem). After a few minutes a bubble popped up in my system tray that said: "Windows - Delayed Write Failed."
3.) Powered down my computer and hooked the two SATA drives up to the Promise controller card. Then booted up. When I booted the Disk Management utility did not recognize the striped set but rather recognized the 300gb drive and then it listed: "Disk 5 Foreign".
4.) When I did power down my system, the disk listed as foreign was cold while the second drive in the striped set was hot (this is obviously a good indicator of drive failure). It did come back on when I booted, but Windows XP tried to initialize it again, separately, no longer recognizing it as part of the striped set.
And this is where I'm at. At this point it looks like the larger drive may just be a dud but I'm not sure. In my intial post ( here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Components/Motherboards/Q_22752049.html ) I said that the drive seemed to work okay. I could always transfer files to it, it was just very, very slow.
Ideally I would like to not set up a striped set. I want each drive to function interchangably as a single drive so I can swap and replace with as much ease as possible.
Any ideas would be highly appreciated. Sorry about the length of this post. :)
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