Silicon Image 680 ATA/Raid card

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Peter M

Weeeeeeee... it's alive, it's alive. I'd given up getting this working but
found some newer raid drivers on Sabrent website. Did an upgrade over the
older non-working ones and now I can see all my drives.

Now if only I could get my HP Photosmart 7150 printer and Canon 4200F
scanner working I'd have all my hardware up and running.
 
Peter M said:
Weeeeeeee... it's alive, it's alive. I'd given up getting this working but
found some newer raid drivers on Sabrent website. Did an upgrade over the
older non-working ones and now I can see all my drives.

Now if only I could get my HP Photosmart 7150 printer and Canon 4200F
scanner working I'd have all my hardware up and running.
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Also have Silicon Image 680 ATA/Raid Card controlling my Vista Disk
partition. The driver set up went ok as did Vista Installation, but after a
couple of sessions on Vista I started getting 'Corrupt Disk ... run Chkdsk'
messages. Chkdsk appeared not to complete (insufficient disk space for
bitmap image) so have been using a Disk Manager under XP to check the drive
(plenty on indexing errors). Now reoccurs after every two/three sessions on
Vista. Have put the problem on windows.vista.general but no one else seems
to have reported any similar problems so cannot not be sure whether it is
simply a driver problem or an unreported bug. Will be interested to see if
you experience any similar problems.

GeoffP
 
Are you running in raid or non-raid. I'm running non-raid. I wonder if
turning indexing off would fix the corruption? Well I will see how it goes.
 
Non-raid.

Had two corrupt sessions one after the other earlier this evening. Will give
it a few more days but am seriously thinking of re-installing Vista on a
partition managed by the motherboard ide controller and just using the 680
Card partitions for data. It's either that or putting it on a virtual system
(VM Ware or Virtual Server 2005 R2 - something I know very little about, but
sounds like a good idea).

Even with some drivers missing, I still like the feel of Vista and would
like to see how it handles day-to-day routines but can't trust it with this
disk corruption problem. Most of my hardware (network, printer and even my
10 year old Microtek SCSI Scanner) is working ok so apart from this one
problem I do appear to have a fully working system so no complaints from me.

If you do encounter any corruption problems please e-mail (or post here) to
let me know as I am leaning more towards it being a Driver problem rather
than a Vista problem and just need that little push to re-install on a
different partition.

Geoff
 
Day 3 and all is good. No corruption seen. You never said what driver ver.
you were using. I install with my original disk and install the non-raid
driver (ver 1.0.1.2) and it never could start, then I installed some raid
drivers I got of sabrent.com (sbt-rdit-1) that were ver. 1.0.1.7 and just
upgraded the drivers from device manager and they worked. Don't know if it
made a difference but I also installed the config util from sabrent's site
(sbt-rdit-3).
 
Peter M said:
Day 3 and all is good. No corruption seen. You never said what driver
ver. you were using. I install with my original disk and install the
non-raid driver (ver 1.0.1.2) and it never could start, then I installed
some raid drivers I got of sabrent.com (sbt-rdit-1) that were ver. 1.0.1.7
and just upgraded the drivers from device manager and they worked. Don't
know if it made a difference but I also installed the config util from
sabrent's site (sbt-rdit-3).
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Same drivers (ver. 1.0.1.7 direct from Silicon Image), but it doesn't look
as if the drivers were the problem as I have just removed the controller
card and connected the HD to the motherboard controller, reformatted the
partition and re-installed Vista and still have the problem. So back to the
drawing board. I've reported it to MS as a possible bug, but suspect it is
something specific to my hardware/drivers.

Geoff
 
Failing HD? Have you tested the drive with the manufacter's diag utilities?
Be worth a shot especailly if the warranty is still good.
 
Had thought of that but no, don't think so. Have checked both the drives
thoroughly (using Acronis Disk Manager) and used different partitions and
drives for the two installations (and getting the same random 'Corrupt Disk'
messages)and nothing else is affected. Looking at the eventviewer, it would
appear that some of these errors have been corrected by NTFS (going by
logged times) but whichever way I use chkdsk, the number of errors corrected
by Vista itself is relatively small and the majority are repaired by chkdisk

As no one else appears to be having this type of problem I guess there must
be something amiss in my setup (hardware or software) and will persevere
with it for a few more days and if it doesn't improve I will try the Vista
setup on a virtual drive. Unfortunately I have started to lose files because
of this problem (antivirus and system files) so another re-instal, of some
kind, would appear to be on the cards. The annoying thing is I eventually
managed to get my nVidia Graphics Card working with Aero Glass after about a
week of trying (simply by increasing my AGP Aperture, in BIOS, to 256/512Mb)
and everything is working just as it should apart from this b****y 'Corrupt
File' problem.

Geoff
 
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