An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging operation

[Freddy]

Hello Everyone,

Today I checked the event log and found the following error:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging
operation

I'm afraid whether this could be my scsi hard disk failure, I'm panic... can
anyone help me?

Thanks in advance
Freddy

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Filter the events in your event viewer so that you only see
error messages. Is this message an isolated event? If yes,
keep an eye on it. If no - replace your hard disk.

Rather than panicing you might see this as an opportunity
to review your backup strategy. A hard disk failure should
never be a catastrophy, only a nuisance. And remember:
Many hard disks fail without any warning whatsoever.

 

[Freddy]

Thanks Pegasus, I will do what you have suggested, I still have some
questions:
Is this message a sign that the hard disk MUST be fail or --
I should use some kind of tools such as chkdsk to make sure it will fail?

Thanks again!

 

[Andrew Aronoff]

Hi, Freddy.

Today I checked the event log and found the following error:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging
operation

I'm afraid whether this could be my scsi hard disk failure

I have an Adaptec SCSI card and such errors are fairly common on my
system. IMHO, they originate with the driver. However, as Pegasus
pointed out, it's also *possible* that your hd is developing a
problem.

Follow Pegasus' advice and use the diagnostic utility supplied by the
maker of your hard disk. One of these links may be appropriate:

Hitachi (IBM):
http://www.hgst.com/downloads/DFT32-V340.EXE

Western Digital:
http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/dlginstall_10_0.exe

Seagate:
http://www.seagate.com/support/npf/seatools/seatoold.exe

If a surface check doesn't reveal any problems and you're using an
Adaptec SCSI card, I'd monitor event frequency, but otherwise accept
the incidents. I'd also back up regularly, but you're certainly doing
that anyway.

My Seagate Ultra and IBM Ultra2 hard disks both showed such incidents
in the Event Log, but neither disk ever lost any data. Since I
converted back to an EIDE hard disk, I now show similar incidents for
my SCSI CD-RW and SCSI DVD/CD-ROM, but both units appear to be
operating normally.

I no longer recommend SCSI for desktops, only for servers. There
aren't enough desktop users for the bugs to be shaken out of the
drivers. When I reported a bug to Adaptec several years ago, there was
a belated acknowledgment, but no action and the bug persists to this
day. The original W2K Adaptec SCSI drivers did a terrible job with CD
data read speed. Updated drivers were recently issued, but they
produced Event ID 9 errors ("The device... did not respond within the
timeout period") on my system at every startup, so I abandoned them.
Getting feedback or tech service about such problems is very, very
difficult.

regards, Andy

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