I move a software RAID5 from one XP Pro machine to another. The mount went fine but after a couple of hours the volume disappears after a number of error messages as seen in the event viewer. The same RAID5 worked great on a 5 times slower machine for over a year with great results. My upgrade should work even better. The only difference between old PC and new PC, is that the PC was not a clean install. It's been installed on and uninstalled on for years. Basically, there shouldn't be a problem with the HDs. The RAID5 is a XP software raid with 3x750GB, so total storate of the dynamic disk is 1.34TB.
Every time I get the errors, the volume eventually disappears but is fine after a reboot. Of course, after each major error, it needs to regenerate the volume, which also takes hours. This is my file server and I can't have it rebooting every 3 hours.
Here are some of the error messages from the "System" folder in the Event Viewer. They are in chronological order. See at the bottom for the most interesting error messages such as "delayed write", "FT Orphaning","detaching RAID-5 Raid1".
I have been trying to troubleshoot this for weeks and its killing me. Please help.
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Regeneration completed on volume Raid1 M:
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The device, \Device\Scsi\inic16201, did not respond within the timeout period.
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The device, \Device\Scsi\inic16201, did not respond within the timeout period.
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The device, \Device\Scsi\inic16201, did not respond within the timeout period.
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The device, \Device\Scsi\inic16202, did not respond within the timeout period.
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The device, \Device\Scsi\inic16201, did not respond within the timeout period.
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The device, \Device\Scsi\inic16202, did not respond within the timeout period.
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The device, \Device\Scsi\inic16201, did not respond within the timeout period.
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The device, \Device\Scsi\inic16202, did not respond within the timeout period.
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The device, \Device\Scsi\inic16201, did not respond within the timeout period.
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The device, \Device\Scsi\inic16202, did not respond within the timeout period.
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dmio: Harddisk2 read error at block 430879807: status 0xc0000185
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dmio: Harddisk3 read error at block 430879871: status 0xc0000185
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dmio: Harddisk4 read error at block 430879871: status 0xc0000185
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dmio: Harddisk2 read error at block 3080255: status 0xc0000185
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dmio: Harddisk4 read error at block 3080255: status 0xc0000185
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dmio: detaching RAID-5 Raid1
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The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.
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dmio: Disk Harddisk4 block 3080255 (mountpoint M:): Uncorrectable write error
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The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.
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Application popup: Windows - FT Orphaning : A disk that is part of a fault-tolerant volume can no longer be accessed.
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{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.
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{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.
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Application popup: Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to save all the data for the file M:\$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.
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Application popup: Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to save all the data for the file M:\FILE_SHARING. 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.
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The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.
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The Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service service entered the stopped state.
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by: leewPosted on 2007-06-11 at 23:32:46ID: 19264009
Really don't know what you're talking about - XP does not support Software RAID 5. It supports Software RAID 0 and Disk Spanning, but not RAID 5. I know there are hacks that supposedly allow RAID 5, but this site does not support hacks and I would further question the importance of the data stored on a software RAID 5 under XP when XP doesn't natively support it (It is not wise to trust your data to a hack).
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http://www.microsoft.com/r
If you have data on the drives, I would suggest trying RAID Reconstructor to rebuild the RAID on another drive (hardware RAID, given the size).