RAID 5 Healthy At Risk

[jgt]

On my WinXP Pro system I have a MSI Mother Board P6N SLI Platinum, I'm using
the built-in Nvidia RAID 5 for a three drive 1.8TB and a 3ware RAID5 for
another 1.8TB. When I start Computer Management and goto Disk Management the
built-in RAID in the Status column now shows "Healthy (At Risk)". When I run
the Nvidia support software and view the storage it reports the RAID 5
status as "Healthy". I've looked in the Event Viewer > System and see a LOT
of 7011 errors where the source is "Service Control Manager" I read the help
about this but it is not helpful for me ("The specified service did not
respond to a control request (such as pause, continue, interrogate, or stop)
from Service Control Manager within the specified time.").

Any suggestions - BTW I need the "dummies" level of suggestions.

 

[Andrew E.]

I take it nvidia built the RAID controller,not intel....Too bad,however,for
any
RAID set,one must 1st set the BIOS for SATA &/or RAID (advanced chipset),
then set boot priority (add in device or similiar),save & exit
BIOS,next,press
the proper key to create a RAID set (post BIOS utility that gets displayed at
every pc start or restart),once configured,exit.At this point one would
usually
install xp & use the F6 option,you must have the a SATA hd with xp on it &
now
you want to create a set.Do the post BIOS RAID configuration first,then in xp
let nvidia software get installed to the set,drivers for the controller
also.How does
3ware enter it,another controller for RAID,if so,the above must be done
also.Also,
read: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/maintain/ntserv.mspx

 

[Malke]

Andrew E. wrote:

(snip drivel)

Andrew, go away. You completely misunderstood the problem and if the OP
followed your "advice" he would have a real mess.

Malke

 

[Malke]

On my WinXP Pro system I have a MSI Mother Board P6N SLI Platinum, I'm
using the built-in Nvidia RAID 5 for a three drive 1.8TB and a 3ware RAID5
for another 1.8TB. When I start Computer Management and goto Disk
Management the built-in RAID in the Status column now shows "Healthy (At
Risk)". When I run the Nvidia support software and view the storage it
reports the RAID 5 status as "Healthy". I've looked in the Event Viewer >
System and see a LOT of 7011 errors where the source is "Service Control
Manager" I read the help about this but it is not helpful for me ("The
specified service did not respond to a control request (such as pause,
continue, interrogate, or stop) from Service Control Manager within the
specified time.").

It sounds like one of the hard drives is marginal. You need to test the hard
drives with a diagnostic utility downloaded from the drive mftr.'s website.
You will create a bootable CD with the file you download. You will need
third-party burning software to do this such as Roxio, Nero, or the free
CDBurnerXP Pro. Burn as an image, not as data.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Boot with the CD you made and do a thorough test of the drive. If it fails
any physical tests, replace it.

Malke