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A7N8X & SATA drive access issues
Cheers,
I have recently installed a SATA Maxtor 6Y120M0 hard drive in my system as a second non-raid hard drive in my system. I currently have the Uber Bios 1004 SATA Enhanced bios installed, along with the 1.0.0.32 Si drivers. My issue with this SATA drive is that it appears to be non-responsive at times and just hang. When this happens, I will occasionally here the hard drive making "clicking" noises. I have reformatted the hard drive in addition to using the Maxtor PowerMax utility to ensure that hard drive checks out as good. I had the same problem even with the Asus 1004 bios and 1.0.0.29 drivers also. I am trying to understand whether this may be a driver or system issue, or maybe the hard drive is bad. Since the maxtor reports the drive is good, it seems that they would not RMA it. thanks for any guidance. Jeff |
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"Jeff" wrote in message ... Cheers, I have recently installed a SATA Maxtor 6Y120M0 hard drive in my system as a second non-raid hard drive in my system. I currently have the Uber Bios 1004 SATA Enhanced bios installed, along with the 1.0.0.32 Si drivers. My issue with this SATA drive is that it appears to be non-responsive at times and just hang. When this happens, I will occasionally here the hard drive making "clicking" noises. I have reformatted the hard drive in addition to using the Maxtor PowerMax utility to ensure that hard drive checks out as good. I had the same problem even with the Asus 1004 bios and 1.0.0.29 drivers also. I am trying to understand whether this may be a driver or system issue, or maybe the hard drive is bad. Since the maxtor reports the drive is good, it seems that they would not RMA it. thanks for any guidance. Jeff I found the Microsoft's standard IDE drivers much better than NVidia's. Have you tried that? -- The Duke |
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Den Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:03:02 +0000 (UTC) skrev Jeff
: My issue with this SATA drive is that it appears to be non-responsive at times and just hang. When this happens, I will occasionally here the hard drive making "clicking" noises. I have reformatted the hard drive in addition to using the Maxtor PowerMax utility to ensure that hard drive checks out as good. I had the same problem even with the Asus 1004 bios and 1.0.0.29 drivers also. I am trying to understand whether this may be a driver or system issue, or maybe the hard drive is bad. Since the maxtor reports the drive is good, it seems that they would not RMA it. I have a P4PE system with a Seagate SATA HD and I have the same problems. I recently RMA'ed my drive but the newly arrived replacement drive makes the same clicking noises. Although the controller on the P4PE board is a Promise FastTrak controller and the brand of HD is different your problem seems to be the same as mine. However I tried to change the SATA cable - my P4PE came with two cables - and that might have cured the problem because my system has been running stable for the last 24 hours. (cross my fingers) Yours V.S. Petersen |
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I found the Microsoft's standard IDE drivers much better than NVidia's. Have you tried that? I thought that I needed to use the SI drivers for the SATA drive? I am using an IBM 60GB ATA drive as my main drive and havn't had any issue with that. thanks Jeff |
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Jeff wrote:
I found the Microsoft's standard IDE drivers much better than NVidia's. Have you tried that? I thought that I needed to use the SI drivers for the SATA drive? I You do. am using an IBM 60GB ATA drive as my main drive and havn't had any issue with that. Good :-) Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a string... |
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Jeff wrote:
Cheers, I have recently installed a SATA Maxtor 6Y120M0 hard drive in my system as a second non-raid hard drive in my system. I currently have the Uber Bios 1004 SATA Enhanced bios installed, along with the 1.0.0.32 Si drivers. My issue with this SATA drive is that it appears to be non-responsive at times and just hang. When this happens, I will occasionally here the hard drive making "clicking" noises. I have reformatted the hard drive in addition to using the Maxtor PowerMax utility to ensure that hard drive checks out as good. I had the same problem even with the Asus 1004 bios and 1.0.0.29 drivers also. I am trying to understand whether this may be a driver or system issue, or maybe the hard drive is bad. Since the maxtor reports the drive is good, it seems that they would not RMA it. thanks for any guidance. I dunno about clicking... http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.mcclay/ Says that for Rev2.0 you either need 1005 or the v1.00.281 to fix corruption issues. For Rev1.0x you'll be fine with the v1.00.29 (or presumably later) I expect you've seen that, just checking :-) Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a string... |
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.mcclay/
Says that for Rev2.0 you either need 1005 or the v1.00.281 to fix corruption issues. For Rev1.0x you'll be fine with the v1.00.29 (or presumably later) I expect you've seen that, just checking :-) Yep, been there. I just downloaded and installed the 2.45 Nvidia drivers and reverted to the 1.0.0.29 SI drivers. Yes, I made too many changes at once, but the SATA drives seems to run fine now. I used HDTach and I get a much "cleaner" looking graph when show me the read rates. Before this, there were a large number of downward spike. I have also captured video to this drive and have not had any lost frames as I did before. Will monitor, but since it seems to work fine now, I doubt if I will touch the drivers for some time with any "updates." Jeff |
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Jeff wrote:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.mcclay/ Says that for Rev2.0 you either need 1005 or the v1.00.281 to fix corruption issues. For Rev1.0x you'll be fine with the v1.00.29 (or presumably later) I expect you've seen that, just checking :-) Yep, been there. I just downloaded and installed the 2.45 Nvidia drivers and reverted to the 1.0.0.29 SI drivers. Yes, I made too many changes at once, but the SATA drives seems to run fine now. I used HDTach and I get a much "cleaner" looking graph when show me the read rates. Before this, there were a large number of downward spike. I have also captured video to this drive and have not had any lost frames as I did before. Will monitor, but since it seems to work fine now, I doubt if I will touch the drivers for some time with any "updates." Good stuff. If you do play at any stage, it'd be nice to let us know the culprit. I expect it's the SATA driver rather then the nVidia one, but who knows... Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a string... |
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