which drive is \Device\Harddisk2

[Christopher Glaeser]

I have six drives on a Windows XP system with three volumes C:, D:, and S:
configured as four drive RAID 0 with Siig SATA controller. The RAID volume
is failing with an error message for \Device\Harddisk2. How do I determine
which of the four RAID drives is failing?

Best,
Christopher

 

[kony]

I have six drives on a Windows XP system with three volumes C:, D:, and S:
configured as four drive RAID 0 with Siig SATA controller. The RAID volume
is failing with an error message for \Device\Harddisk2. How do I determine
which of the four RAID drives is failing?

Best,
Christopher

Run the (Silicon Image/Medley?) Raid manager software which
should show which in the properties of one of the drives.
If Siig doesn't offer it (and assuming it is a Silicon Image
chipset based card) then download from Silicon Image
website.

 

[Christopher Glaeser]

Run the (Silicon Image/Medley?) Raid manager software which

should show which in the properties of one of the drives.
If Siig doesn't offer it (and assuming it is a Silicon Image
chipset based card) then download from Silicon Image
website.

Thanks! I did not see the SATARaid app on the Siig website, but I found it
on the Silicon Image website. Using SATARaid, I was able to determine that
Channel 3 was failing (apparently Harddisk2 referred to the entire RAID
set). SATARaid also identified the serial number of the failing drive, so I
was able to replace it with confidence I had the correct drive.

I then use F4 at boot up to delete the old RAID set, and create a new RAID
set. Next I used the Windows XP Device Manager (right click My
Computer->Manage) to remove the old volume, and then create and format the
new volume.

Best,
Christopher

 

[kony]

Thanks! I did not see the SATARaid app on the Siig website, but I found it
on the Silicon Image website. Using SATARaid, I was able to determine that
Channel 3 was failing (apparently Harddisk2 referred to the entire RAID
set). SATARaid also identified the serial number of the failing drive, so I
was able to replace it with confidence I had the correct drive.

I then use F4 at boot up to delete the old RAID set, and create a new RAID
set. Next I used the Windows XP Device Manager (right click My
Computer->Manage) to remove the old volume, and then create and format the
new volume.

Best,
Christopher

One thing to beware of is that it can indicate a problem but
it (or we, not knowing the exact nature of the problem)
can't necessarily tell you if it's the drive or just the
cable or power connection, depending on what the problem
is... if it's reporting SMART errors that's a more sure sign
since the drive itself has reported it is beyond a
threshold.