Mirrored RAID on ASUS A7V600

[Terry Kesteloot]

Asus A7V600 Motherboard

My friend is having a problem with the RAID Controller on
the system. I've attached 2 SATA drives to the MB and
placed them onto a mirrored array configuration. The
problem seems to be synchronization of the 2 drives at
shut down. IE the system is shutting down before the
drives are finished synchronizing. The result is that
chkdsk runs when ever the system is restarted or a
critical system file is corrupted and it refuses to
boot. If I perform a restart or soft boot I don't run
into the problem. Is there a setting I'm missing (I
tried to set the shutdown time in the console to slow it
up a bit but it didn't work) is there a way to fix this.

Thanks in advance

 

[Willit]

yep, that what is does, just removed my card this morning.
I just got tired of putting up with it after 2 years.

Drive mis-matches, corruption, errors, bad boots,etc.
The drives spend half the time re-building them selves.
Any error triggers it, you can shut off the auto-rebuild
and that will help some. Even though the drive shows to be
out of sync, I have removed them from the raid set and
they are not. I tried all the things you have, none worked
to make it dependable. One I learned if you install
anything don't let is do a system re-start. Updates and
anything from MS seem to be the worst. Shut it down
manually and reboot.

 

[Terry Kesteloot]

Aha, The answer.

It was that stinking and buggy Norton Ghost 2003 service
that was running on the system. After I disabled it the
computer starting shuting down and restarting properly.

I usually shut this service down after I install ghost
just because I don't like it and I prefer to use a floppy
to do the recovery anyway. For some silly reason I
didn't shut it down after I installed it. Oh well my
friend is happy to hear that it is now stable and is
comming to get it.

See ya

Terry