Hi folks, I'm setting up a new system using a recently-purchased Albatron K8X800 Pro II MB. For the most part, it seems to work fine, except for a serious problem with my Highpoint RocketRAID 454. Basically, what happens is my system wigs out whenever I do large file transfers with my RR 454 RAID 0 arrays and major network activity (e.g., copying files to or from my RAID over my home network) simultaneously. If I do one or the other separately, it works fine; or I can, say, download stuff off the Net and copy files between my RAID arrays without any problems. It's only when I "stress" both my network connection and RAID that I have problems.
The first symptom was that my network connection would disappear during simultaneous operations and my system would get unresponsive; I could quit and restart, but it would take an unusually long time. Other times, during file operations, it would give an error message about being unable to read/copy a file and have to abort; again, restarts took an unusually long time. Sometimes I would get both error messages at the same time. And most recently, after such an error during a large file transfer (from one RAID 0 array to the other), after rebooting Windows told me that *both* of my RAID partitions were corrupt and unreadable! "Clucking bell," as the man says...
So, while I run a data recovery tool on said RAID arrays, praying that I'll be able to recover or rebuild my partitions, I have to ask: WTF is wrong here?! Obviously, if my drives can't reliably store data, my RAID arrays are worse than useless! I'm pretty sure my RAID controller and drives are good, as it works just peachy in my old system (Soltek KT266A MB). Is it some sort of bizarre hardware or driver conflict? Is the K8T800 chipset - or just this particular MB - not ready for prime time? GAAAAHHHH!
Here is my system configuration:
Albatron K8X800 Pro II MB (latest VIA Hyperion drivers installed)
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU (retail version)
Antec True430 power supply
512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM (2 x 256MB Crucial)
ATI Radeon 9800 XT video card (with Catalyst 3.10 drivers)
WD Raptor 36GB SATA HD (boot drive, connected to SATA-1)
RocketRAID 454 (with v.3.03 BIOS & drivers) in PCI slot 4
- 2 WD 120GB SE IDE hard drives in RAID-0
- 2 WD 200GB SE IDE HDs in RAID-0
ASUS CD-ROM drive (primary master)
Running Windows 2000 SP4 (fresh install). My Raptor has two partitions (one primary, one logical), my RAID 0 arrays each have one extended partition, all formatted with NTFS (native, not converted from FAT). Apart from my RocketRAID, I have no other PCI cards installed in this system. FireWire, parallel port, game port, and MIDI port disabled; all other MB features enabled. No overclocking. MB configured to use SATA ports in IDE mode (only way I could get it to boot from the Raptor with RR454 installed; in RAID mode it ignores the drive).
I am *seriously* at a loss here. I really want to get this RAID array working in my system; but if I have to worry about this kind of major data loss/corruption - well, it's obviously not doing me very much good, is it?
Thanks a lot to anyone and everyone who can help bail me out!
The first symptom was that my network connection would disappear during simultaneous operations and my system would get unresponsive; I could quit and restart, but it would take an unusually long time. Other times, during file operations, it would give an error message about being unable to read/copy a file and have to abort; again, restarts took an unusually long time. Sometimes I would get both error messages at the same time. And most recently, after such an error during a large file transfer (from one RAID 0 array to the other), after rebooting Windows told me that *both* of my RAID partitions were corrupt and unreadable! "Clucking bell," as the man says...
So, while I run a data recovery tool on said RAID arrays, praying that I'll be able to recover or rebuild my partitions, I have to ask: WTF is wrong here?! Obviously, if my drives can't reliably store data, my RAID arrays are worse than useless! I'm pretty sure my RAID controller and drives are good, as it works just peachy in my old system (Soltek KT266A MB). Is it some sort of bizarre hardware or driver conflict? Is the K8T800 chipset - or just this particular MB - not ready for prime time? GAAAAHHHH!
Here is my system configuration:
Albatron K8X800 Pro II MB (latest VIA Hyperion drivers installed)
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU (retail version)
Antec True430 power supply
512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM (2 x 256MB Crucial)
ATI Radeon 9800 XT video card (with Catalyst 3.10 drivers)
WD Raptor 36GB SATA HD (boot drive, connected to SATA-1)
RocketRAID 454 (with v.3.03 BIOS & drivers) in PCI slot 4
- 2 WD 120GB SE IDE hard drives in RAID-0
- 2 WD 200GB SE IDE HDs in RAID-0
ASUS CD-ROM drive (primary master)
Running Windows 2000 SP4 (fresh install). My Raptor has two partitions (one primary, one logical), my RAID 0 arrays each have one extended partition, all formatted with NTFS (native, not converted from FAT). Apart from my RocketRAID, I have no other PCI cards installed in this system. FireWire, parallel port, game port, and MIDI port disabled; all other MB features enabled. No overclocking. MB configured to use SATA ports in IDE mode (only way I could get it to boot from the Raptor with RR454 installed; in RAID mode it ignores the drive).
I am *seriously* at a loss here. I really want to get this RAID array working in my system; but if I have to worry about this kind of major data loss/corruption - well, it's obviously not doing me very much good, is it?
Thanks a lot to anyone and everyone who can help bail me out!
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