RAID errors

Beerbaron · 16 Mar 2010 at 10:51

I have 2 x 160GB WD drives in RAID and 1 of the drive has decided to show "error 0 occurred" this morning when i boot. I seem to be able to get in to Windows fine apart from 1 occasion when it BSOD.

What ive tried so far:

I ran WD data lifeguard diagnostic however i get the message:

CableTest::Read diagnostics data error

I have checked and swapped the sata cables and managed to get an error saying something about SMART error/failure.

The drive has been sounding a little clunky lately and I ran a full defrag and chkdsk on it last night.

Does this suggest i having a dying drive?

dr4g0nf1y · 16 Mar 2010 at 15:07

I'd suggest if there's anything important on them back it up if you haven't already done so just to be or the safe side.

have you scanned them with hd tune?

Beerbaron · 16 Mar 2010 at 16:35

just had a few saved games other than that it was my windows drive. No, i havent used that before, can it scan them in raid? The drive is over 3 years old, can it still be rma'd if needed?

dr4g0nf1y · 16 Mar 2010 at 16:37

I don't think the warranty would have been that long.

I use hd tune for my array and checks the health and will show bad errors.

the only way to be sure is to break the array, re-format and check separately on another system.

Beerbaron · 16 Mar 2010 at 20:44

Out of Limited Warranty 1/18/2010 and i purchased it on 03/02/2007. Always the way

Just giving HD tune a go

Beerbaron · 16 Mar 2010 at 20:52

transfer rate:
minimum: 1.27MB/sec
maximum: 117MB/sec

Seems to be a huge difference here.

No bad sectors
The health tab for the array is n/a but my other storage drive shows data.

Think i might try and format and rebuild the array

Beerbaron · 17 Mar 2010 at 01:50

i removed the drives from the array and formatted them. i installed windows on the working one and then attached the one with errors and the checks with HD tune says the drive is fine :confused:

bluntslide · 19 Mar 2010 at 08:42

i had this problem, downloaded intel matrix storage manager and that allowed me to see the drive then change it to normal. after then, it never popped up again.
might not be the same problem but it worked for me.

Beerbaron · 21 Mar 2010 at 18:16

As soon as i selected raid on my mobo i would get the error again, i realised the hdd was still set to raid even tho i had formatted it. I set it back to a non-raid disk which then allowed me to then add it to raid.

I did download the latest version of intel matrix storage manager (8.9 i think) but that only seemed to show in windows as the version in my bios is still V6.1.0.1002