a7v333-secondary ide controller broken?

[bone]

The following event occurred tonight on my a7v333. Exactly the same thing
has been happening for a few months now but tonight it resisted fixing
itself so I disconnected the drives in question.

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 5/11/2003
Time: 6:49:27 PM
User: N/A
Computer: BUSTER
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging
operation.


Actually it occurred 25 times in 100th of a second.
For good measure
Event Type: Error
Event Source: PlugPlayManager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 12
Date: 5/11/2003
Time: 6:49:27 PM
User: N/A
Computer: BUSTER
Description:
The device 'IC35L040AVER07-0' (IDE\DiskIC35L040AVER07-0
________________________ER4OA44A\5&14c31bbd&0&0.0.0) disappeared from the
system without first being prepared for removal.

then
Event Type: Error
Event Source: PlugPlayManager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 12
Date: 5/11/2003
Time: 6:49:27 PM
User: N/A
Computer: BUSTER
Description:
The device 'ST340014A' (IDE\DiskST340014A_______________________________
3.06____\4a3331584b475a39202020202020202020202020) disappeared from the
system without first being prepared for removal.

I check my Windows explorer and yes the two hard disks aren't there.

I begin to think that something very bad is happening.

I reboot and they are there for a few moments.

So I took the CDROM off the primary controller and put the IC35L on as
slave and its working fine. I suspect if I put the other drive on the
second primary channel it would work ok.

I have to think its the secondary ide controller and not the hdd onboard
controllers.

I don't believe its a power problem or a heat issue.

Unless someone has some brilliant idea about a simple fix I think I have to
take it to the dealer and let them run some tests.

 

[Robert Hancock]

It's possible you have a controller or cable problem. However, the one drive
you have is an IBM Deskstar 60GXP, which are notoriously unreliable drives -
a problem with it would be my first suspect..

 

[tammarackjack]

While I don't have that mother board, I had a similar problem with the
VIA 333 chipset. To make a long (2 day) story short, the primary IDE
channel didn't like two devices and it didn't like the 80 conductor
cable (tried several of them).

I ended up doing two things:
1. isolated the hard drive on the primary IDE channel and placed the
CDROM and CD-RW on the secondary IDE channel.
2. replaced the 80 conductor cable with an old 40 conductor.

After that things worked well.