Instead, I went into BIOS and changed SATA settings from RAID to IDE,
then ran Seagate disk toola on both disks. It says SMART is okay for
both, so I ran long diagnostic. Both disk pass.
So maybe I have intermittent fault, either drive or controller?
They have done 33000 hours, so perhaps time for a trade-in...
"Smart" Diagnostic hours - bloody humbug. Got an old Seagate 200G,
maybe three times that. I forget. Been replaced with two SSDs on
either side of a token of more modern T-class plattered drives now
available. As a backup of one of the SSDs, the Seagate is fine,
functionally not going anywhere else anytime too soon.
How do I know these things - I don't;- but, I'll be goddamned before I
let some diagnostic horseshit tell me the drive's no good. Old school
was usually some form of churn routine, writing and verifying sectors
(or iterations thereof) for fault-prone "indications";- _factory
level_ initialization was another option: a Low Level Format, once
specific to a manufacturer and sometimes the drive series (not
entirely sure what might newer LLF "routines" similarly intend to
inculcate).
Not coming out of a RAID routine, though, at least in my book, is as
deserving as just going ahead and buying a new drive. Without having
reformatted the drive for at least a cursory inspection of operable
characteristics contrary to consequent software modifications, not to
exclude controller chips and what's idiomatic, if at all, in that
sense.
I had two Silicon Technology PCI HDD controllers, by way of
illustration, whereupon one, the older purchase, would randomly lock
during transfers and sometimes cause inexcusable delays in software
operation.
Who's to say said diagnostics is indicative. . .aside whatever else,
god forbid, MS purports;- I'm not even going to tell you why I don't
run RAID -MODE nothing- in anything I care/dare, particularly, to
build;- for last, so simple a format/fdisk routine and careful
inspection/analysis of anything subsequently amiss or suspect.
Granted, a looney PCI controller isn't something for hard, set and
fast rules. They're aren't any. The only diagnostics available, you
have to reach behind, and pull them from off the seat of your pants.
Brown for knock on wood. I'm still not over nor entirely comfortable
since upgrading to another series, same-manufacture PCI controller.
But, hey, if that's about the only band playing, where else ya gonna
go danse?