Delayed Write Failed

xarj · Post by **xarj** » April 29th, 2005, 10:30 pm

Here is my problem : I bought a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 16MB Cache SATA coupled with a Silicon Image 3112A SATA Controller. I was never able to install Windows XP on this drive as it always crashed before the end. I connect the hard drive to an existing Windows XP Pro SP2 installation and when i transfer any big files (500MB or more), i get the "Delayed Write Failed" error and the hard drive just disapears from windows! The drive reappears after i reboot. What i did : 1- I spent hours reading all i could find about this error on the internet but no solution yet! 2- I updated all the drivers and BIOS of all my hardware but no change. 3- I returned the drive where i bought it and they did tons of tests only to return the same drive saying the drive was perfectly fonctional. So i guess the drive does not have any problems. 4- I thought it might be my Firewire controller because of Microsoft's article "885464", so i removed it from my computer but didn't change anything. 5- For the silicon image 3112 SATA controller, windows xp installed drivers version 1.0.0.50. I updated to version 1.0.0.51 and now instead of getting the "Delayed Write Failed" error, my computer just freezes and i need to reboot. Some articles from the Microsoft Knowledge Base regarding the "delayed write failed" : *** http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;885464 <-- The symptoms are exactly what I'm getting but the HotFix didn't fix anything and i'm not using a 1394 Drive, i just have a 1394 controller, nothing connected to it. http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;330174 http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;870894 http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;842520 Exact error i get : ------------------- Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to save all the data for the file G:\$Mft. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere. ------------------- From event viewer : 0000: 04 00 04 00 02 00 52 00 ......R. 0008: 00 00 00 00 32 00 04 80 ....2..box 0010: 00 00 00 00 9d 00 00 c0 ....box..Ãƒâ‚¬ 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0028: 9d 00 00 c0 box..Ãƒâ‚¬ ------------------- When i look into my event viewer, these errors appear every time the "delayed write failed" occurs (in chronological order) : 1- "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation." (SOURCE = Disk) 2- "The device, \Device\Scsi\SI3112r1, did not respond within the timeout period." (SOURCE = SI3112r) 3- "The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur." (SOURCE = Ftdisk) 4- "The device, \Device\Harddisk2\D, is not ready for access yet." (SOURCE = Disk) My configuration : Athlon XP 2600+ 2x256 MB DDR-SDRAM 333mhz (dual channel) GeForce 6600GT SB Audigy 2 MSI 6570 K7N2G-L NForce 2 Chipset -Bios = v4.1 080204 Firewire PCI Controller ***Silicon Image 3112 revision 2 <-- SATA PCI Controller -Bios = 4.2.50 -WinXP Drivers = 1.0.0.51 IBM 120GB IDE Maxtor 80GB IDE Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 16MB Cache SATA I'm TOTALY desperate!!! Please, Anyone can help?? I invested a lot of money in this drive, and i can't get a refund so i need to find a solution! Thank you all for the help! Arnaud http://www.xarj.com

MawDuce · Post by **MawDuce** » May 2nd, 2005, 9:19 pm

ok ill have a go at this one....first you have some conflicting hardware issues. Why do you have duel channel ram when there is no XP supported board that offers it? I have an MSI board with support for the 754 AMD 64 and dont have duel channel ram. You must have an AMD with socket 939, or an intel board with 775 socket support to take advantage of duel channel ram. If you truely bought duel channel, it is now operating as single channel ram. In addition you have the GE force 6800GT and Audigy 2. Dont ya think a CPU upgrade is in order here? And why did you install a PCI SATA controller? Your board supports 2 drives. Having said that> I noticed theres " SCSI" mentioned in one of your errors. Is this a SCSI drive? You said you payed a lot for this drive. SATA drives arent that expensive, SCSI is downright costly and difficult to configure. Especially if you lack a SCSI controller. You have some nice hardware that needs to be configured properly and given the CPU support it needs. Some research may be in order my friend.

Post by **ccb056** » June 7th, 2005, 5:26 pm

Have you looked at these two links: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=321733 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=330174&sd=RMVP