Delayed Write Failure Error 50

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Nikolaos Papapanagiotou

Hello,

This is my first post to this newsgroup. I am getting quite desperate with
delayed write failures in my hard drives. I am using Windows 2000
Professional (SP4) on an Athlon XP 2600+ running on AOpen motherboard. I
have 512Mb DDR-RAM. I have a collection of hard disks, 2 IBM Deskstars 80
and 120GB repsectivelly, a Maxtor 250GB and 2 western digitals of 100 and
60GB. The 100GB WD, the maxtor and the two IBMs are connected to a SIS PCI
IDE controller.

I have this problem for a long time and have lost a huge amount of data
because of it. I have tried solutions from the microsoft website, other
various forums and many other places but still continue to get th esame
problem. The thing that most people suggest is basically to disable write
cashe on the disks. However when I go through the device manager to change
that it gets unchecked but when I apply the changes and reset the pc and
open device manager again the option are still checked. Is there any way
that I can actually get this problem fixed?

If anyone has had this problem before and managed to fix it can they give me
any help at all... I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for your time guys!

Nikos
 
Hello,

This is my first post to this newsgroup. I am getting quite desperate
with delayed write failures in my hard drives. I am using Windows
2000 Professional (SP4) on an Athlon XP 2600+ running on AOpen
motherboard. I have 512Mb DDR-RAM. I have a collection of hard
disks, 2 IBM Deskstars 80 and 120GB repsectivelly, a Maxtor 250GB and
2 western digitals of 100 and 60GB. The 100GB WD, the maxtor and the
two IBMs are connected to a SIS PCI IDE controller.

I have this problem for a long time and have lost a huge amount of
data because of it. I have tried solutions from the microsoft
website, other various forums and many other places but still continue
to get th esame problem. The thing that most people suggest is
basically to disable write cashe on the disks. However when I go
through the device manager to change that it gets unchecked but when I
apply the changes and reset the pc and open device manager again the
option are still checked. Is there any way that I can actually get
this problem fixed?

If anyone has had this problem before and managed to fix it can they
give me any help at all... I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for your time guys!

Nikos
Click to expand...

Well there are 2 major causes of delayed write faulures, drivers and
hardware. The drivers can be mass storage drivers or filter drivers
(examples are AV and backup). So some questions.

Do the delayed write failures occur across all drives?
What have you tried so far?
Do you get events 7, 9, 11 or 13 with the source of a disk subsystem
component?

There is not a single fix for the problem and turning off write caching
will not fix the root cause.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
 
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