Unable to backup system drive - suspect RAID driver?

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KeithXP

I am tearing my hair out trying to bottom this out.

I have WinXP SP2 installed on the following hardware:

Athlon 64 (ASUS AV8 mainboard)

1 120Gb SATA disk, Primary partition (C:) and extended (D:) connected to
VIA SATA controller

2 160Gb SATA disks, RAID1 array connected to integrated Promise 20378
controller.


Both Retrospect 7 and NTBackup stick or fail (Retrospect in particular)
due to "Delayed Write Failure".

Using the Promise Array Manager (PAM) I have tried Enabling/Disabling

1. Disk write cache
2. Drive Write cache
3. Array Write Through / Write Back.

But nothing seems to fix the problem.


Can anyone give me a clue as to what the problem might be here? I just
know that while my pants are down with no backup, something ghastly will
happen soon...


thanks

Keith P.
 
KeithXP said:
I am tearing my hair out trying to bottom this out.

I have WinXP SP2 installed on the following hardware:

Athlon 64 (ASUS AV8 mainboard)

1 120Gb SATA disk, Primary partition (C:) and extended (D:) connected to
VIA SATA controller

2 160Gb SATA disks, RAID1 array connected to integrated Promise 20378
controller.


Both Retrospect 7 and NTBackup stick or fail (Retrospect in particular)
due to "Delayed Write Failure".

Using the Promise Array Manager (PAM) I have tried Enabling/Disabling

1. Disk write cache
2. Drive Write cache
3. Array Write Through / Write Back.

But nothing seems to fix the problem.


Can anyone give me a clue as to what the problem might be here? I just
know that while my pants are down with no backup, something ghastly will
happen soon...


thanks

Keith P.
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Where are you trying to backup to? That error is common with external
drives.

Kerry
 
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