asus a8n sli deluxe nvraid => RAID 1 file corruption

[peter79]

This thing is supposed to be used as a J2EE server, we are required to put a win2003 ghost on it, which was already difficult (the manual explains what to do, apparently sata raid and ghost don't mach) , but that's solved. But now I see (tried it more then once) corrupt files after reboot, and windows wont start anymore. The hardware is completely new, and the ghost is correct, because it is used on many many machines. Is this a known issue ? or can it just be a broken hard drive ? WD 120gb 8mb cache sata 150 disks

 

[peter79]

up :-(

 

[imported_Phil]

Are you trying to load an image of a different machine onto this server?

 

[peter79]

yes, but I don't think that's the problem, it's the ghost that is used by our company all over the world to install Win2003 servers. My last test :

installed a raid 1 , detached one of the disks(raid bios says, raid is "deteriorated" or something , installed the ghost , installed all the drivers etc..., all went fine, rebooted a couple of times, and then I stopped the thing, installed the 2nd drive (and readed it to the raid), booted (went fine), the Nforce raid drivers did an update (for the mirror) , and then started to repair this raid. Then f*ck it happened again, got the fabulous blue screen 'o death, something about the machine check failure. Then I've just shut it down and went home. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

To me it can be 4 things :

-NVRAID is that crappy, that even a simple mirroring doesn't work (seems very unlikely
-I've used the ASUS standard drivers for the motherboard, they may not be Win2003 server compatible
-One of the disks is bad
-the ghosts was build for xeons, and that's the issue, I don't think so because the nforce4 drivers installed succesfully

Any help would be greatly appreciated, also because this is kind of a prototype (I normally don't build machines professionally, I only complain about their performance ) , If this machine exceeds expectations (which I think it's capable of) more AMD64's and opterons can come. And I would just love to trow that old P4 2.4ghz dell outside and get me a whitebox A64 development machine

PS => any good HDD test utility that can be put on a bootable usb drive ?

 

[peter79]

I can't find any information about this on the internet, am I the only person with this problem? O just the only one using the nvraid for mirroring ?

 

[peter79]

nobody ?