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Mike
I'm afraid the following problem description is quite long, but I want to
give you as much information as possible.
I have a total of 17 partitions on 4 large harddisks.
Whenever I start the system, the event log shows entries like this for 12 of
my 17 partitions. (The ID is of course different for every partition.):
"Event Type: Error
Event Source: LDMS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 3023
Description:
The Logical Disk Manager Service failed while registering for device handle
notifications on device
\\?\storage#volume#1&30a96598&0&signaturefe4d8bd8offset7e0000length18ffea7e00#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}.
Win32 Error: 1066."
All 4 harddisks are affected but every harddisk also contains at least one
partition that is NOT affected.
Microsoft Help and Support Center has no information about this Event/Error.
I also didn't find anything about it in the MS knowledge base. I've talked
to several support people on computer exibitions and they all never heard of
this.
I am not sure, if the these LDMS errors are the cause of my other problems
of just another symptom. Here are the other, real problems:
- Only the unaffected partitions are available for performance monitoring
with perfmon.msc.
I don't care much for performance monitoring but this is a good and easy way
to see which partitions are affected and which are not.
I also mention this because I hope it might give someone an idea about the
cause of these problems.
- I can't change the page file settings in any way.
Windows insists on creating a default size pagefile.sys on the first
partition that is not affected and has enough free space. There's nothing I
can do about this. I can't move the page file, I can't disable it. Neither
setting page file parameters through system properties/advanced nor changing
the registry values directly has any effect. (Before you ask, the system has
full control on all partitions.)
This is the worst of the problems. With 1GB RAM the default page file has a
size of 1.5GB and it is really annoying to run out of space on a data
partition because the page file "suddenly" appears on that volume after a
reboot.
- Creating new partitions becomes a time-consuming effort: I can no longer
just create, format and use a new partition. First I have to "enable" the
drive and reboot. Then, when I try to create a new partition, is is created
but formatting fails because the new partition is "not enabled". I have to
reboot to "enable" the unformatted partition. After a reboot I can format
it.
Windows Disk Management and Partition Magic 8.01 both have this problem.
(Partition Magic requires a reboot to create new partitions after it
encountered the error once. That way it's at least possible to create and
format partitions in one step with only one reboot... )
I've searched the web and Usenet for this and found some hints that this
problem might be caused by Virtual-CD emulators, the "Intel Application
Performance Enhancer" IDE driver and some security driver (Pace, tpkd.sys) I
never heard of before. I tried removing my CD emulator which didn't help and
I don't have any of the other things installed. I never found a real
solution or any information on the cause of these problems, but quite a lot
of people seem to have the similar problems with the page file...
For a while I thought this might be related to the driver of the Highpoint
IDE RAID controller that the disks where connected to, but I switched to a
Silicon Image SATA controller recently and the problem is still the same.
(My 3 "old" IDE drives are connected with Silicon Image IDE to SATA
bridge-adapters, the 4th disk is a native SATA disk from Seagate. All disks
are used as single drives, I don't use RAID.)
Both controllers use "SCSI" miniport drivers and the disks are identified as
SCSI disks so maybe the problem lies there. I doubt that however, as not ALL
partitions are affected...
My system also uses two optical SCSI drives on a Symbios logic SCSI
controller, one IDE/ATAPI DVD-Writer connected as master to the first
channel of the onboard IDE controller and a USB Compact Flash Reader that
shows up as removable drive. I also have a mobile rack connected as slave on
the first IDE channel. It makes no difference if there's a disk connected in
the mobile rack or not.
My mainboard is an older ABIT KG7-RAID; the onboard IDE controller is
supplied by a VIA southbridge. The onboard Highpoint controller is disabled
since the SATA controller is installed.
The Operating System is Windows XP Pro with SP2 final installed.
All the latest drivers are installed.
I first noticed these errors in the event log about 2 years ago, after I had
copied several partitions, including the Windows System partition to a new
harddisk. I don't know if the problem was there before I copied the
partitions. Back then only 3 or 4 partitions where affected and the page
file was created on a volume where it didn't matter. Since then I've
occasionally tried to solve this but never found a solution.
My Windows installation is rather complex with lots of programs, including
numerous development tools, and lots of "tweaks". Apart from the problems
mentioned above, the system runs fast and stable.
Re-installing and re-configuring everything from scratch would take several
days so I'd rather not do this unless I absolutely have to.
I really hope someone can come up with an idea to solve this.
Thanks in advance,
- Mike
give you as much information as possible.
I have a total of 17 partitions on 4 large harddisks.
Whenever I start the system, the event log shows entries like this for 12 of
my 17 partitions. (The ID is of course different for every partition.):
"Event Type: Error
Event Source: LDMS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 3023
Description:
The Logical Disk Manager Service failed while registering for device handle
notifications on device
\\?\storage#volume#1&30a96598&0&signaturefe4d8bd8offset7e0000length18ffea7e00#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}.
Win32 Error: 1066."
All 4 harddisks are affected but every harddisk also contains at least one
partition that is NOT affected.
Microsoft Help and Support Center has no information about this Event/Error.
I also didn't find anything about it in the MS knowledge base. I've talked
to several support people on computer exibitions and they all never heard of
this.
I am not sure, if the these LDMS errors are the cause of my other problems
of just another symptom. Here are the other, real problems:
- Only the unaffected partitions are available for performance monitoring
with perfmon.msc.
I don't care much for performance monitoring but this is a good and easy way
to see which partitions are affected and which are not.
I also mention this because I hope it might give someone an idea about the
cause of these problems.
- I can't change the page file settings in any way.
Windows insists on creating a default size pagefile.sys on the first
partition that is not affected and has enough free space. There's nothing I
can do about this. I can't move the page file, I can't disable it. Neither
setting page file parameters through system properties/advanced nor changing
the registry values directly has any effect. (Before you ask, the system has
full control on all partitions.)
This is the worst of the problems. With 1GB RAM the default page file has a
size of 1.5GB and it is really annoying to run out of space on a data
partition because the page file "suddenly" appears on that volume after a
reboot.
- Creating new partitions becomes a time-consuming effort: I can no longer
just create, format and use a new partition. First I have to "enable" the
drive and reboot. Then, when I try to create a new partition, is is created
but formatting fails because the new partition is "not enabled". I have to
reboot to "enable" the unformatted partition. After a reboot I can format
it.
Windows Disk Management and Partition Magic 8.01 both have this problem.
(Partition Magic requires a reboot to create new partitions after it
encountered the error once. That way it's at least possible to create and
format partitions in one step with only one reboot... )
I've searched the web and Usenet for this and found some hints that this
problem might be caused by Virtual-CD emulators, the "Intel Application
Performance Enhancer" IDE driver and some security driver (Pace, tpkd.sys) I
never heard of before. I tried removing my CD emulator which didn't help and
I don't have any of the other things installed. I never found a real
solution or any information on the cause of these problems, but quite a lot
of people seem to have the similar problems with the page file...
For a while I thought this might be related to the driver of the Highpoint
IDE RAID controller that the disks where connected to, but I switched to a
Silicon Image SATA controller recently and the problem is still the same.
(My 3 "old" IDE drives are connected with Silicon Image IDE to SATA
bridge-adapters, the 4th disk is a native SATA disk from Seagate. All disks
are used as single drives, I don't use RAID.)
Both controllers use "SCSI" miniport drivers and the disks are identified as
SCSI disks so maybe the problem lies there. I doubt that however, as not ALL
partitions are affected...
My system also uses two optical SCSI drives on a Symbios logic SCSI
controller, one IDE/ATAPI DVD-Writer connected as master to the first
channel of the onboard IDE controller and a USB Compact Flash Reader that
shows up as removable drive. I also have a mobile rack connected as slave on
the first IDE channel. It makes no difference if there's a disk connected in
the mobile rack or not.
My mainboard is an older ABIT KG7-RAID; the onboard IDE controller is
supplied by a VIA southbridge. The onboard Highpoint controller is disabled
since the SATA controller is installed.
The Operating System is Windows XP Pro with SP2 final installed.
All the latest drivers are installed.
I first noticed these errors in the event log about 2 years ago, after I had
copied several partitions, including the Windows System partition to a new
harddisk. I don't know if the problem was there before I copied the
partitions. Back then only 3 or 4 partitions where affected and the page
file was created on a volume where it didn't matter. Since then I've
occasionally tried to solve this but never found a solution.
My Windows installation is rather complex with lots of programs, including
numerous development tools, and lots of "tweaks". Apart from the problems
mentioned above, the system runs fast and stable.
Re-installing and re-configuring everything from scratch would take several
days so I'd rather not do this unless I absolutely have to.
I really hope someone can come up with an idea to solve this.
Thanks in advance,
- Mike