Please help I have Magic Drives

IronWarrior

IronWarrior

IronWarrior

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I got a weird problem that is making my brain hurt thinking about it.

I have 13 HDD's connected right now, one of them is a USB and the rest are SATA.

They are all connected to three HDD controllers. 4-5 are connected to the motherboard, two are connected to one PCI card (2x) and the rest are connected to the other PCI card (x8). I'm using Windows 7, latest updates and all that.

I did have 15 HDD's (two of them IDE to SATA) connected about 20 minutes ago, but I disconnected them and removed them. I then rebooted the once to install my updates.

My Computer is showing 16 HDD's. I don't have partitions.

My computer is open case and am looking at it right now, I can only count 13.

I can still access all the drives and play files in them.

What is going on. :eek:
 
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UKDTweak said:
Do you have any usb devices plugged in such as a printer that has a card reader built in?
Does disk management show 16 individual drives, each with a letter assigned, one per line??
Can you goto My computer and access each of the drive letters and do they show different files ??

Open Device Manager... how many drives does it list??
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No printer connected, no monitors connected by USB, no other equipment with any sort of card reader.

Disk Management shows 16 individual drives with letters and names assigned per line. No partitions.

I can access each drive, read the files and folders within and create new media inside them.
 
wonko said:
:confused:
And are there are no RAID arrays involved that could be showing 1 physical drive as 2 or more logical drives in disk management? Or drivepool, RAM disks or similar?

Could you match up the disks showing in disk management with the physical disks (e.g. comparing capacities) to work out which are the "ghost" ones and investigate from there?
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No RAID or anything. My drives are all just connected to two HDD controllers and the motherboard. No partitions and each drive is treated normally, no RAID setup.

I can match each drive in My Computer to the drives in the PC, apart from the drives I have removed which are the IDE drives.

I will take some photos later and upload showing everything.
 
wonko said:
So 2 or the 3 are the unplugged IDE drives, what's the third?
What sort of converter are you using to connect the IDE drives to SATA ports, and is it still attached?
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The third, I have no idea, am confused about that too.

The converter is just one of the simple little card things you find on eBay that connects to the back of the IDE drive which has a SATA and 3/4pin molex power connection.

That's also unplugged.

Maybe I reboot again and see what happens. :o
 
Here are the photos.

HDD_Problem_4.jpg


The USB drive is the one with the blue light. The SDD is the little black thing at the bottom of the HDD cage. The two HotSwaps have two HDD's inside. the DVD drive is not connected.

HDD_Problem_3.jpg


HDD_Problem_2.jpg


HDD_Problem_1.jpg


The Raid Card is an 3Ware 9500S-8, 8-Port SATA RAID while the smaller one is a Lycom PE-115 SATA.

I have rebooted 5 times so far and did two full shutdowns to check wires.

So am I going crazy or what?
 
Some of my friends are telling me that HDD controllers do have some sort of cache system but that shouldn't explain why detached drives should still be showing up.

The cache system would explain why when I download to drives Q, T or V I would lose data again after a while.
 
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