Delayed write failure

[afairjudgement]

I built a computer, has an internal 320 gig Western Digital Caviar
just for storage. It's partitioned into 3 chunks, one 150 gig,
a 100, and a 50; and I have Windows on a seperate Raptor 10k RPM SATA.
When there's too much going on with the drive, too many processes
going, writing to, removing, basically any kind of semi-heavy hard
drive traffic going on, i get something similar to this:

Windows - Delayed Write Failure
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
(file usually located on one of the partitions, E:, F:, G
This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or
network connection. Please try to save the file elsewhere

So I have to reboot for everything to be fine again.
Never experienced this problem before and I've tried several things
like updating my nForce 590 chipset driver, played with the windows
registry to fix the write caching stuff, but that didn't help at all.
I see most people experiencing this problem are using external USB hard
drive enclosures, but mine is internal.

Are there any legitimate hot fixes that will take care of the problem?

 

[philo]

I built a computer, has an internal 320 gig Western Digital Caviar
just for storage. It's partitioned into 3 chunks, one 150 gig,
a 100, and a 50; and I have Windows on a seperate Raptor 10k RPM SATA.
When there's too much going on with the drive, too many processes
going, writing to, removing, basically any kind of semi-heavy hard
drive traffic going on, i get something similar to this:

Windows - Delayed Write Failure
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
(file usually located on one of the partitions, E:, F:, G
This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or
network connection. Please try to save the file elsewhere

Run the mfg's diagnostic on the harddrive
it could be failing

 

[afairjudgement]

It comes up fine on the diagnostic test. I've had two of these drives,
the first did fail but this second one I know is fine. The problem
seems to be related to the system caching the info as it tries to read,
write, etc. So I believe it to be a windows/software issue which there
must be a fix for somewhere.
Thanks for the input though...

 

[JAD]

what windows?
there is a hard drive cache patch that was made to help systems write to FAST hard drives at shut
down. This may not apply. Are you sure your drives are in DMA and not PIO?

 

[afairjudgement]

Hey thanks for the response.
XP Pro Media Center Edition.
I don't know much but I believe DMA is for IDE devices only, I only
have SATA drives. I did just try disabling write caching, I couldn't
find the setting for it before so we'll see how that goes.

 

[JAD]

http://bermangraphics.com/problems/delayedwritefailure.htm

check this out

 

[Contumeliorus Florius]

I built a computer, has an internal 320 gig Western Digital Caviar
just for storage. It's partitioned into 3 chunks, one 150 gig,
a 100, and a 50; and I have Windows on a seperate Raptor 10k RPM SATA.
When there's too much going on with the drive, too many processes
going, writing to, removing, basically any kind of semi-heavy hard
drive traffic going on, i get something similar to this:

Windows - Delayed Write Failure
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
(file usually located on one of the partitions, E:, F:, G
This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or
network connection. Please try to save the file elsewhere

So I have to reboot for everything to be fine again.
Never experienced this problem before and I've tried several things
like updating my nForce 590 chipset driver, played with the windows
registry to fix the write caching stuff, but that didn't help at all.
I see most people experiencing this problem are using external USB hard
drive enclosures, but mine is internal.

Are there any legitimate hot fixes that will take care of the problem?

I had this issue too on a SATA2 HDD. I was using it in SATA2 mode using
JMicron driver. Next time I installed XP I set the HDD to IDE mode in the
bios and in that mode no driver is needed. I haven't had the issue since
and I see in device manager it is set to DMA mode6 still and not 5. I've
had this issue with USB 2.0 external HDD's too and the way to fix that is
to set the HDD to optimize for quick removal instead of optimize for
performance in device manager.

 

[Shep©]

I built a computer, has an internal 320 gig Western Digital Caviar
just for storage. It's partitioned into 3 chunks, one 150 gig,
a 100, and a 50; and I have Windows on a seperate Raptor 10k RPM SATA.
When there's too much going on with the drive, too many processes
going, writing to, removing, basically any kind of semi-heavy hard
drive traffic going on, i get something similar to this:

Windows - Delayed Write Failure
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
(file usually located on one of the partitions, E:, F:, G
This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or
network connection. Please try to save the file elsewhere

So I have to reboot for everything to be fine again.
Never experienced this problem before and I've tried several things
like updating my nForce 590 chipset driver, played with the windows
registry to fix the write caching stuff, but that didn't help at all.
I see most people experiencing this problem are using external USB hard
drive enclosures, but mine is internal.

Are there any legitimate hot fixes that will take care of the problem?

Just my two cents.You can't expect the older IDE speeds to keep up
with the newer SATA speeds.Dump the IDE drives if you are going SATA
IMHO.

 

[Michael Cecil]

Did you use a proper 80-wire data cable? The most common reason for this
error is either an improper cable and/or forcing the BIOS to configure the
drive for UDMA5 (which an old 40-wire cable cannot do).

 

[spodosaurus]

I built a computer, has an internal 320 gig Western Digital Caviar
just for storage. It's partitioned into 3 chunks, one 150 gig,
a 100, and a 50; and I have Windows on a seperate Raptor 10k RPM SATA.
When there's too much going on with the drive, too many processes
going, writing to, removing, basically any kind of semi-heavy hard
drive traffic going on, i get something similar to this:

Windows - Delayed Write Failure
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
(file usually located on one of the partitions, E:, F:, G
This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or
network connection. Please try to save the file elsewhere

So I have to reboot for everything to be fine again.
Never experienced this problem before and I've tried several things
like updating my nForce 590 chipset driver, played with the windows
registry to fix the write caching stuff, but that didn't help at all.
I see most people experiencing this problem are using external USB hard
drive enclosures, but mine is internal.

Are there any legitimate hot fixes that will take care of the problem?

Sounds like windows is having a problem keeping the partitions mounted.
I get errors like this with programs that run using folders on network
drives (such as store and profile folders) when the network connectivity
is disrupted.

Ari

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