I don't know if this is the best newsgroup to poise this
question..however...

I am attempting to provided substantial fast additional disk space
with 2 x SATA 120GB for video editing. To bridge these drives to my
system I utilize a 1394 bridge from Digital Granite.

I install the drives and they both show-up in my directory. Both seem
to work fine. However, after a while one or both of them goes "bad". I
have no correlation as to when this souring occurs. It seems to occur
more frequently than could be explained by any local power glitches.
The condition is, they still show in the directory but when an access
attempt is made, the error message informs "The disk structure is
corrupted and unreadable".

The other phenomina is that when I reboot, Windows (XPPro) goes into a
diagnostic mode and attempts a disk check (only for the these two
drives and sequentially). This process usually then hangs (or after
about 10 minutes I get annoyed, reboot, and do the "press any key to
bypass" which then gets me operational.

I guess first that there is some sort of time-out occurring during the
communication process between the bridge and the main board. But why
does this lead to a disk corruption?

Second, is there a way to instruct Win XP Pro to automatically bypass
the disk check process for these two drives during post-boot
processing?

I surely don't want to use the drives after extensive video editing
only to have my work trashed.

If there is a better workgroup to post this query on - please
recommend.

TIA
Rip

Rip Rapalski <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I don't know if this is the best newsgroup to poise this
>question..however...
>
>I am attempting to provided substantial fast additional disk space
>with 2 x SATA 120GB for video editing. To bridge these drives to my
>system I utilize a 1394 bridge from Digital Granite.
>
>I install the drives and they both show-up in my directory. Both seem
>to work fine. However, after a while one or both of them goes "bad". I
>have no correlation as to when this souring occurs. It seems to occur
>more frequently than could be explained by any local power glitches.
>The condition is, they still show in the directory but when an access
>attempt is made, the error message informs "The disk structure is
>corrupted and unreadable".
>
>The other phenomina is that when I reboot, Windows (XPPro) goes into a
>diagnostic mode and attempts a disk check (only for the these two
>drives and sequentially). This process usually then hangs (or after
>about 10 minutes I get annoyed, reboot, and do the "press any key to
>bypass" which then gets me operational.
>
>I guess first that there is some sort of time-out occurring during the
>communication process between the bridge and the main board. But why
>does this lead to a disk corruption?
>
>Second, is there a way to instruct Win XP Pro to automatically bypass
>the disk check process for these two drives during post-boot
>processing?
>
>I surely don't want to use the drives after extensive video editing
>only to have my work trashed.
>
>If there is a better workgroup to post this query on - please
>recommend.
>
>TIA
>Rip


Oops...make that Granite Digital.