Is this Rpator RMA time - pics

Winston · 15 Oct 2006 at 17:30

My Raptor has been 'chugging' quite a lot recently so ran the WD diagnostics test on it and it came back with no errors on each test :rolleyes:

So just ran a HDtach test, twice infact it came back with this

This mean RMA time or could there be another factor?

I recently formatted due to poor performance so i din't think that would help again

VaderDSL · 15 Oct 2006 at 17:32

tried new cables? tried on different SATA ports etc.?

Winston · 15 Oct 2006 at 17:33

VaderDSL said:
tried new cables? tried on different SATA ports etc.?

No to the above but if i haven't changed anything what could have failed?

VaderDSL · 15 Oct 2006 at 17:35

It could have, what OS are you using and on what motherboard/chipset?

Winston · 15 Oct 2006 at 17:38

VaderDSL said:
It could have, what OS are you using and on what motherboard/chipset?

Win XP Pro and DFI NF4 SLI-D

Winston · 15 Oct 2006 at 17:51

Tried new cable and on all the sata ports, same results. ANything else?

VaderDSL · 15 Oct 2006 at 17:52

chipset drivers maybe?

Winston · 15 Oct 2006 at 18:23

VaderDSL said:
chipset drivers maybe?

Reverted back to 6.66 from 6.86 and got this

Much better, cheers vader

Wonder what's up with the 6.86's :confused:

rpstewart · 15 Oct 2006 at 19:57

Winston said:
Wonder what's up with the 6.86's

First guess would be that they kicked the drive back into PIO transfer mode rather than UDMA but the CPU usage looked a little low for PIO.