SMART failure

[ChristopherP]

How accurate are these warnings?

 

[Me__2001]

no idea but i'd do a complete backup and give it a scan with some sort of drive checker

 

[muckshifter]

How accurate are these warnings?

VERY ACCURATE ... DO AS IT SAYS

 

[ChristopherP]

hmm.

It said that a couple months ago but it went away...

 

[muckshifter]

hmm.

It said that a couple months ago but it went away...

Well then ignore it ... what have you to loose. SMART is pretty good technology as it is built-in to the HD directly.

I take it you at least have run some diagnostic on the drive, no?

 

[ChristopherP]

Hmm this time it came back within an hour or so...

Is there a good recommended diagnostic utility that works on a RAID 0 array? It is Intel Application Accelerator that is reporting the fault.

You can't buy these drives any more so if i replace one, i have to replace them both!

 

[muckshifter]

It is Intel Application Accelerator ...

Do not Intel have a fix or something for that?

No idea how to check RAID ... unless you are using full redundecy I would never bother with it ... DVDRWs are made for that.


Sorry Chris, can't help at the moment ...

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[ChristopherP]

Thats OK no worries, i am capable enough to use Google (was just wondering if there were any recommened utilities) so will have a look when i get home... after i have seen the parents they just got home from NYC... like 3 hours early because they broke the sound barrier :-O

 

[Quadophile]

Use the program on disk makers site, that is the most reliable you can get rather than using a third party software.

 

[ChristopherP]

I'll take a look at Samsungs site then when i get home... they are both 80Gb SATA drives...

Cheers

 

[drainedsoul]

Ah the problems of RAID 0. I lost alot of software due to both of my raid controllers having conflicts. Because there is no fault tolerance, you wont be able to recover anything if that drive goes.

In principal, you will NEED to replace that drive. It is a hardware fault that is delivering you this lovely message. If you can get hold of a HDD with the same specs - 80 GB 7200 RPM yadiyadiya then you it should be fine. However, to get this working again will take a bit of effort!

You need to take the *faulty* drive out of your pc, and ghost it onto a new drive. Add the new drive back into your array and that should work in theory. Otherwise, back up everything you need. Give a good old format (i love to format) get yourself a set of new drives and rebuild the o.s.

Format King aka drainedsoul

 

[ChristopherP]

everything seems to be working OK though which is what i dont get... hmm.

Will back up, sit back, and wait

 

[drainedsoul]

It will do, its a predictive failure telling you that the disk will soon go. (yes they exist). May i also suggest you invest in a raid controller rather than using the os raid. The OS raid will make your computer slower rather than faster. If you are ignore this, just looked like a windows msg in the piccy.

 

[ChristopherP]

Its on chip RAID - the Intel ICHR5 controller on the board, hardware controlled - the software just hooks with this.

 

[drainedsoul]

Coolio, i prefer to use 3rd party Array Controller Software over ms. That would mean its the RC thats kicking back the report of the Health of your disk. Be sure and safe to back up heh.

 

[ChristopherP]

it is - it's the Intel Application Accelerator RAID software thats sending that back... the one from abit.com.tw

 

[drainedsoul]

OK so lets shoot me now, hehehe

 

[ChristopherP]

bang