My RAID keeps failing

JaseUK

JaseUK

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Hi guys

Was wondering if anyone had an idea of why my RAID keeps failing on my Gigabyte X48-DQ6

Basically I have 2 x HDD's set up in RAID0 which Vista is installed on and I have a further 2 x HDD's configured in RAID1 for backup.

However the RAID1 continually fails displaying one of the HDD's as 'error occurred' and the volume degraded.

I have used both BIOS's F6 and F7b but no fix.

I have swapped the SATA cables round, tried different ports but nothing. I am using the ICH9R controller and not the Gigabyte RAID.

Both HDD's are identical Seagate 7200.10, 320GB
 
brendy said:
Does your pc shut down properly? also are the two drives similar speeds/cache etc?
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Yeah both drives are exactly the same. It cannot be the HDD's as I have replaced them and the same problem is arising.

Shutting down seems fine, however I am just shutting the PC down now and its hanging
 
hmmm as has already been suggested run some harddisc diagnostics to check if you've been unlucky and had a couple of faulty harddrives (unlikley but still possible).

Other than that... if you know anyone that has a seperate RAID controller that works may be worth plugging that in and seeing if you get the same problems. Could be the onboard controller is faulty.
 
Thankyou for all your feedback guys I will give each one a go.

I cant imagine the HDD's are faulty as I had the same problem with the one's that were replaced.

Personally I think I have a faulty board (raid controller) or one of the SATA ports is faulty.

I will keep you posted
 
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Ran a Seagate Diagnostic on both the Seagate 7200.10's and both return without errors.

However one of the drives just before Seagate DOS diagnostic and Killdisk start it throws up a few lines on the screen saying: -

'illegal partition table drive 00 sector 0'

Whats this mean anyone :confused:
 
Id try:

*run drives as non raid & scandisk each one
*just try RAID 0 with 2 drives at first
*check drive properties in dev mgr that they are all sata2 as sometimes older drives are set to sata1 even though they are sata2
 
Well I seemed to have repaired the fault.

It appeared as though my hard drives were not fully formatted from the previous raid arrangement, why I have no idea.

Anyroad I just ran seagate's diagnostic out of windows and it formatted the dsrives and returned no errors.

I did the same with my two F1 samsung drives and then rebuilt the raid using Ctrl+I from the BIOS.

What I did do was just build the raid0 for the OS installation first, after pre-installing intel's F6 drivers.

Once Vista was installed I built my raid1 using the intel matrix storage manager within the OS.

It all seems pretty stable so far, fingers crossed.
 
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