Event ID 11 - which hard drive has problem???

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Adam White

I recently began receiving the following error message in my event log
on an intermittant basis:
Event ID 11: The driver detected a controller error on
\Device\Harddisk1\DR1

I have replaced the hard drive that I thought was causing this problem
.... but I still get the messages (and my disk sometimes seems to spin
and spin, like it is having trouble).

My system has two hard drives on it ... and I want to make sure I'm
looking at the one that's generating those error messages. But I
cannot figure out how to relate the error message to a physical hard
drive. I've searched the MS support site ... they have some related
info but nothing I can find tells me exactly what I need to know.
I've also spent all afternoon searching various web forums. I see a
bunch of people frustrated by this same problem ... but no answers.

Can anyone tell me how to figure this out?

One final thing ... to see if a cable was causing the problem, I
swapped the two IDE cables (both standard 80-pin). My error messages
STILL say "harddisk1\DR1". I would have thought moving the drive that
was previously on the primary IDE channel to the secondary channel
would have changed the HardDisk#?????
 
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Adam White

One other thing ...

I'm running W2K, SP4. Under the Disk Management plug-in of Computer
Management, I can view the properties of each drive (right-click on
gray area). This shows me to which IDE cable (primary or secondary)
each device is connected. It also gives me a "port number," a "target
ID," and a "LUN." It SEEMS that Port Number relates to the IDE channel
(i.e., Port 0 = Primary, Port 1 = Secondary) and Target ID relates to
the slot on the IDE cable (i.e., 0 = master, 1 = slave). I cannot tell
what LUN does.

Am I interpreting these fiels correctly? I'm still trying to figure
out why, when I swapped the cables, the "harddrive#" didn't change?
 

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