System crashes during heavy slave disk operation

[Treripica]

System details in sig.

Every time I do some heavy disk activity(R/W/WE), Vista BSOD's with a read error. The error log in event viewer will have 29 of these:

Log Name: System
Source: disk
Date: 9/15/2007 11:01:57 PM
Event ID: 15
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Nemo
Description:
The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, is not ready for access yet.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="disk" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49156">15</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-09-16T03:01:57.518Z" />
<EventRecordID>5147</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Nemo</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>\Device\Harddisk0\DR0</Data>
<Binary>0300680001000000000000000F0004C0040100009D0000C0000000000000000000000000000000009D04000000000000FFFFFFFF010000004000000A0000000001200A1240032040000200003C00000098BACE8760F50587000000000800C684000000000008000028000000080000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

One of these:

Log Name: System
Source: volmgr
Date: 9/15/2007 11:01:57 PM
Event ID: 57
Task Category: (2)
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Nemo
Description:
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="volmgr" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32772">57</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-09-16T03:01:57.518Z" />
<EventRecordID>5130</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Nemo</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>\Device\HarddiskVolume1</Data>
<Binary>00000000010000000200000039000480000000009D0000C000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

Then, things get wierd.

Upon soft reboot, the drive will disappear from the BIOS entirely. However, if you power off, on the machine, it comes back.

Sometimes, the system will just act like you pulled the plug and the drive will disappear(usually during a copy procedure). You power off/on, the drive comes back.

Cables are secure, I've tried a couple other SATA slots(it's in 03), but it still seems to do it.

The SMART analysis that Speedfan runs tells me that the HD is fine except that the power-on hours count is low(whatever that means).

IMHO, it sounds like the HD is dying, but if so, it's really going about it in a wierd way. This drive ran XP wonderfully in my old box before, and I can't imagine Vista doing something to make the drive disappear in the BIOS. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[JustaGeek]

Make sure that you are using 80-conductor IDE cable, and the transfer speed is set to Ultra DMA 5 or UDMA-6 in BIOS.

Well, you said slave, and now I am reading again and you mention SATA drives.

Try another cable, and/or make sure that the jumper on the HD is set to 3GB/s operation (i.e. removed, in case of Seagate drives).

Good luck!