How to decipher "Disk" error events?

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How can I decipher which disk (or volume) is being referenced in the event
log when "Disk" (source) reports an error?

Example:
"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0. "

Which is Harddisk0?
First Drive on IDE 1?

Which is DR0?
First Partition?

I'm a bit confused, because I recently had some "Disk" errors with
"\Harddisk0\DR0", and turned out to be my ZIP drive, which is Slave on
IDE2... and judging from the date/time of this current error, I believe it
was generated with a problem reading a CD in optical drive, which is Master
on IDE2.

TIA,

Chris


Complete Event Message:
*********************************
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11
Date: 2/8/2004
Time: 2:41:32 PM
User: N/A
Computer: BEAST
Description:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.
Data:
0000: 04 00 22 00 01 00 72 00 .."...r.
0008: 00 00 00 00 0b 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 ee 26 94 03 00 00 00 .î&”....
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 2a 00 00 00 ....*...
0038: 02 8f 00 00 03 08 04 00 .......
0040: 2a 00 01 ca 13 77 00 00 *..Ê.w..
0048: 80 00 €.
 
These may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314093
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;154690

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Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
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:
| How can I decipher which disk (or volume) is being referenced in the event
| log when "Disk" (source) reports an error?
|
| Example:
| "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0. "
|
| Which is Harddisk0?
| First Drive on IDE 1?
|
| Which is DR0?
| First Partition?
|
| I'm a bit confused, because I recently had some "Disk" errors with
| "\Harddisk0\DR0", and turned out to be my ZIP drive, which is Slave on
| IDE2... and judging from the date/time of this current error, I believe it
| was generated with a problem reading a CD in optical drive, which is
Master
| on IDE2.
|
| TIA,
|
| Chris
|
|
| Complete Event Message:
| *********************************
| Event Type: Error
| Event Source: Disk
| Event Category: None
| Event ID: 11
| Date: 2/8/2004
| Time: 2:41:32 PM
| User: N/A
| Computer: BEAST
| Description:
| The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.
| Data:
| 0000: 04 00 22 00 01 00 72 00 .."...r.
| 0008: 00 00 00 00 0b 00 04 c0 .......À
| 0010: 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
| 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
| 0020: 00 ee 26 94 03 00 00 00 .î&"....
| 0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
| 0030: 00 00 00 00 2a 00 00 00 ....*...
| 0038: 02 8f 00 00 03 08 04 00 .......
| 0040: 2a 00 01 ca 13 77 00 00 *..Ê.w..
| 0048: 80 00 ?.
|
|
 
Thanks Dave.

Not sure yet how this applies to me... but I'm reading carefully now; just
starting to try to understand what's going on here.
These "Disk" errors are fairly intermittent and therefore difficult to
troubleshoot when persistent.

But, perhaps this is a case of a "really smart guy" answering a "kinda' dumb
question"... in that maybe you saw more in my question than I knew was
there?

Right now I'm trying to understand what the numerical portion of the error
message means when it references "Harddisk#\DR#"... what information is
being enumerated by the #'s?

Thanks
Chris
 
See if this one helps.

How to Distinguish a Physical Disk Device from an Event Message
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q159/8/65.asp


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| Thanks Dave.
|
| Not sure yet how this applies to me... but I'm reading carefully now; just
| starting to try to understand what's going on here.
| These "Disk" errors are fairly intermittent and therefore difficult to
| troubleshoot when persistent.
|
| But, perhaps this is a case of a "really smart guy" answering a "kinda'
dumb
| question"... in that maybe you saw more in my question than I knew was
| there?
|
| Right now I'm trying to understand what the numerical portion of the error
| message means when it references "Harddisk#\DR#"... what information is
| being enumerated by the #'s?
|
| Thanks
| Chris
 
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