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Old 04-10-2008   #4 (permalink)
wendy


 
 

Re: RAID 0 showing a read or write error occurred

Thank you DL and Rich T. I have run the diagnostic utility for Western
Digital disks and it comes up with a cable error and stops. Chkdsk shows no
errors. I don't know what to try next. i've backed up to an external hd.
Wendy

"DL" wrote:
Quote:

> Use the diagnostics utility available from the hd manufacturers site
> Basically you create a bootable floppy/cd & boot from this to run the tests
> Note raid 0 has no redundency, lose one hd you lose it all
>
> "wendy" <wendy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> newsCFA81F6-C563-47B6-842C-BFF04137BD88@xxxxxx
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> >I have vista home premium on a Dell 9200 Dimension with 2 x 250 Gb hard
> > drives configured to raid 0. I get an error showing at startup that disk
> > 0
> > is ok but disk 1 has an error.
> > I have re-installed the Intel Storage Matrix driver R158601 and the Intel
> > Storage Matrix Manager R158600. When I look at the Manager I see that a
> > read
> > or a write error has occurred on disk 1. Chkdsk shows no errors
> >
> > I have done a backup. I would like to know how to find out if it is a
> > hardware or software error and what I can do to sort the problem out.
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