Delayed Write Failure

[ShepsCrook]

"Windows - Delayed Write Failed

Windows was unable to save all the data for file C:\(File Location)
The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network"

I've tried unchecking "Enable write caching on the disk" for all of the drives on the machine. It mostly happens when I try to move large files from one drive to another. It just recently started to give me a hard time with Photoshop though.

My hardware setup:

2x 74GB Raptors
2x 250GB Seagate SATA

The raptors are on the Onboard Intel Matrix RAID controller set to Raid0
The Seagates are on the Marvell controller, not in any raid configuration. My transfering files is from one of the 250GB seagates, to the RAID0 Raptors. Or visca versa.

I'm guessing something isn't set right with my raid somehow. Intel D975XBX2 motherboard.
Downloading the latest driver will not help as it stops the installation saying something to the effect of "You don't have this hardware."

Any ideas? I'm not a fan of having to reinstall everything onto this system, but everything is backed up JUST in case.

 

[DonDon]

Yuck. You have few good options.

You can download the Dos version of the WD diagnostic program and check out the 2 Raptors 1 at a time.

Have your tried replacing the cables and different power connectors for the drives?

Run Seatools on the Seagate drives. But if it is happening from both Seagate drives, it looks like a problem in the array.

Anything beyond this is getting ugly. You will prolly have to break the array and install windoz on each drive separately to find out if it is the drives or the Raid controller causing the problem.

Don

 

[ShepsCrook]

Ahhh fudge...