A7N8X & SATA drive access issues

[Jeff]

Cheers,

I have recently installed a SATA Maxtor 6Y120M0 hard drive in my
system as a second non-raid hard drive in my system. I currently have
the Uber Bios 1004 SATA Enhanced bios installed, along with the
1.0.0.32 Si drivers.

My issue with this SATA drive is that it appears to be non-responsive
at times and just hang. When this happens, I will occasionally here
the hard drive making "clicking" noises. I have reformatted the hard
drive in addition to using the Maxtor PowerMax utility to ensure that
hard drive checks out as good. I had the same problem even with the
Asus 1004 bios and 1.0.0.29 drivers also.

I am trying to understand whether this may be a driver or system
issue, or maybe the hard drive is bad. Since the maxtor reports the
drive is good, it seems that they would not RMA it.

thanks for any guidance.

Jeff

 

[Duke of Url]

Cheers,

I have recently installed a SATA Maxtor 6Y120M0 hard drive in my
system as a second non-raid hard drive in my system. I currently have
the Uber Bios 1004 SATA Enhanced bios installed, along with the
1.0.0.32 Si drivers.

My issue with this SATA drive is that it appears to be non-responsive
at times and just hang. When this happens, I will occasionally here
the hard drive making "clicking" noises. I have reformatted the hard
drive in addition to using the Maxtor PowerMax utility to ensure that
hard drive checks out as good. I had the same problem even with the
Asus 1004 bios and 1.0.0.29 drivers also.

I am trying to understand whether this may be a driver or system
issue, or maybe the hard drive is bad. Since the maxtor reports the
drive is good, it seems that they would not RMA it.

thanks for any guidance.

Jeff

I found the Microsoft's standard IDE drivers much better than NVidia's. Have
you tried that?

 

[V.S. Petersen]

Den Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:03:02 +0000 (UTC) skrev Jeff

My issue with this SATA drive is that it appears to be non-responsive
at times and just hang. When this happens, I will occasionally here
the hard drive making "clicking" noises. I have reformatted the hard
drive in addition to using the Maxtor PowerMax utility to ensure that
hard drive checks out as good. I had the same problem even with the
Asus 1004 bios and 1.0.0.29 drivers also.

I am trying to understand whether this may be a driver or system
issue, or maybe the hard drive is bad. Since the maxtor reports the
drive is good, it seems that they would not RMA it.

I have a P4PE system with a Seagate SATA HD and I have the same
problems. I recently RMA'ed my drive but the newly arrived replacement
drive makes the same clicking noises. Although the controller on the
P4PE board is a Promise FastTrak controller and the brand of HD is
different your problem seems to be the same as mine. However I tried
to change the SATA cable - my P4PE came with two cables - and that
might have cured the problem because my system has been running stable
for the last 24 hours. (cross my fingers)


Yours

V.S. Petersen

 

[Jeff]

I found the Microsoft's standard IDE drivers much better than NVidia's. Have
you tried that?

I thought that I needed to use the SI drivers for the SATA drive? I
am using an IBM 60GB ATA drive as my main drive and havn't had any
issue with that.


thanks

Jeff

 

[Ben Pope]

I thought that I needed to use the SI drivers for the SATA drive? I

You do.

am using an IBM 60GB ATA drive as my main drive and havn't had any
issue with that.

Good

Ben

 

[Ben Pope]

Cheers,

I have recently installed a SATA Maxtor 6Y120M0 hard drive in my
system as a second non-raid hard drive in my system. I currently have
the Uber Bios 1004 SATA Enhanced bios installed, along with the
1.0.0.32 Si drivers.

My issue with this SATA drive is that it appears to be non-responsive
at times and just hang. When this happens, I will occasionally here
the hard drive making "clicking" noises. I have reformatted the hard
drive in addition to using the Maxtor PowerMax utility to ensure that
hard drive checks out as good. I had the same problem even with the
Asus 1004 bios and 1.0.0.29 drivers also.

I am trying to understand whether this may be a driver or system
issue, or maybe the hard drive is bad. Since the maxtor reports the
drive is good, it seems that they would not RMA it.

thanks for any guidance.

I dunno about clicking...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.mcclay/

Says that for Rev2.0 you either need 1005 or the v1.00.281 to fix corruption
issues.
For Rev1.0x you'll be fine with the v1.00.29 (or presumably later)


I expect you've seen that, just checking

Ben

 

[Jeff]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.mcclay/

Says that for Rev2.0 you either need 1005 or the v1.00.281 to fix corruption
issues.
For Rev1.0x you'll be fine with the v1.00.29 (or presumably later)


I expect you've seen that, just checking

Yep, been there. I just downloaded and installed the 2.45 Nvidia
drivers and reverted to the 1.0.0.29 SI drivers.

Yes, I made too many changes at once, but the SATA drives seems to run
fine now. I used HDTach and I get a much "cleaner" looking graph when
show me the read rates. Before this, there were a large number of
downward spike. I have also captured video to this drive and have not
had any lost frames as I did before.

Will monitor, but since it seems to work fine now, I doubt if I will
touch the drivers for some time with any "updates."

Jeff

 

[Ben Pope]

Yep, been there. I just downloaded and installed the 2.45 Nvidia
drivers and reverted to the 1.0.0.29 SI drivers.

Yes, I made too many changes at once, but the SATA drives seems to run
fine now. I used HDTach and I get a much "cleaner" looking graph when
show me the read rates. Before this, there were a large number of
downward spike. I have also captured video to this drive and have not
had any lost frames as I did before.

Will monitor, but since it seems to work fine now, I doubt if I will
touch the drivers for some time with any "updates."

Good stuff. If you do play at any stage, it'd be nice to let us know the
culprit. I expect it's the SATA driver rather then the nVidia one, but who
knows...

Ben