ATAPI/DISK Errors

[Craig321]

Hi,

In the event viewer every so often I'm getting DISK and ATAPI errors.

After a few of these errors the channel my main hard drive is on gets put into PIO mode which is basically turbo slow mode only giving 3mb/s to my hard drive, so everything lags and nothing starts.

I have to uninstall the channel from the device manager, reboot and then it goes back to DMA 5.

This happens every few months.

Here's the 'atapi' error:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: atapi
Event Category: None
Event ID: 9
Date: 05/01/2007
Time: 08:14:00 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SCAR
Description:
The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort2, did not respond within the timeout period.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 0f 00 50 00 01 00 a4 00 ..P...¤.
0008: 00 00 00 00 09 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 ........
0038: 40 00 00 0e 00 00 00 00 @.......
0040: 00 20 0a 12 80 01 20 40 . ..€. @
0048: 00 10 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 30 51 85 90 dc 44 86 .0Q…ÜD†
0058: 00 00 00 00 08 90 b7 85 .....·…
0060: 02 00 00 00 bf e0 80 0f ....¿à€.
0068: 2a 08 0f 80 e0 bf 00 00 *..€à¿..
0070: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

And the 'disk' error:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11
Date: 06/01/2007
Time: 03:40:36 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SCAR
Description:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\D.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 03 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 0b 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 9e 1d d8 29 00 00 00 .ž.Ø)...
0028: 1e 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 8f 02 00 00 00 @......
0040: 00 20 0a 12 40 03 20 40 . ..@. @
0048: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 00 00 00 78 ac 14 86 ....x¬.†
0058: 00 00 00 00 48 aa 14 86 ....Hª.†
0060: 02 00 00 00 cf 0e ec 14 ....Ï.ì.
0068: 28 00 14 ec 0e cf 00 00 (..ì.Ï..
0070: 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 @.......
0078: f0 00 04 00 00 00 00 0b ð.......
0080: 00 00 00 00 08 03 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

From those error reports, can anyone tell what's actually causing the errors please?

EDIT

It seems that these errors actually happen during bootup sometime... User: N/A.

Thanks,
Craig.