WD Raptor 150

[DasFox]

I have a Raptor 150 (WD1500ADFD) a single drive for gaming in a non-raid array. I have just started noticing in the 'Computer Management' 'System' that there are Warnings for the disk.

Event ID 51

An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation.

Is this a problem? From what I was told from WD's Level 2 Enterprise support, without the drive in a raid setup the TLER has no controller to allow the drive to recheck, so they told me sometimes you can see a error because of this, even there is no problem.

So I'm just wondering what this error is about and if it is really something to be concerned over.

THANKS

 

[BFG10K]

I have the same non-RAID drive and I don't see those event log errors. Try running a disk checking utility as the drive may be faulty.

Also I presume you aren't overclocking anything in your system?

 

[Rubycon]

Hey that's not normal.

Download the Data Lifeguard boot disk maker from wdc.com and run a test on it to be sure.

 

[DasFox]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
I have the same non-RAID drive and I don't see those event log errors. Try running a disk checking utility as the drive may be faulty.

Also I presume you aren't overclocking anything in your system?

I did run a check on it. WDs Level 2 Enterprise Tech support told me that when the drive is in a non-raid setup then TLER has no raid controller to run rechecks, therefore in a non-raid setup it will only run a check once and if it thinks there is a error when there really is none then you can get a warning on this.

 

[DasFox]

Well I ran Data Lifeguard, both tests the 'Quick' and 'Extended' and it showed no errors. Is this 100% accurate? I mean if I have no errors then why this warning?

My Cable connection is sucking at the moment and as soon as I can I'll upload a image showing this message.

THANKS

 

[Genx87]

The last time i saw this the disk failed less than a week later.

/shrug

 

[DasFox]

Originally posted by: Genx87
The last time i saw this the disk failed less than a week later.

/shrug

Check this out, looks like this might be a bug is all:

http://217.115.198.3/content/topic/12946/?o=20

I mean I did a Data Lifeguard boot disk check and there where no errors so if there was a hard drive failure there should of been errors reported.

Anyone else please know anything about this for sure?

I'm running XP SP2 on a Abit KN8 SLI with the latest bios.

Are there any possibilites that some bios/boards with these Raptors running under XP SP2 in a non-raid setup are having this issue?

AHHH MS Help and Support:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244780/en-us

 

[DasFox]

Ok I asked this over at Abit's forum, since I'm running the Raptor on a KN8 SLI and here is the post:

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?p=673647&posted=1#post673647

So far so good, does anyone know if there ARE issues with the Raptor 150 and nForce IDE drivers?

But as I mention over there the only thing that seems odd is in such a clean install with like nothing in it yet, there are already minor inconsistencies on the drive. I mean what these Raptors are sensitive drives getting errors on them easy?

Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 21 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 21 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 21 unused security descriptors.

THANKS

 

[DasFox]

Well I ran chkdsk again, and once again it cleaned up these minor inconsistencies on the drive.

I have never had any drive until now that everytime you run a chkdsk it's cleaning up
inconsistencies.

I've run many drives in the past where you could run it for like a year and only get one or two inconsistencies.

In 2 days running 6 chkdsk there has been also 6 cleanup inconsistencies, is this how this drive is, or this is also a sign of hard drive problems, failure?

 

[BFG10K]

So far so good, does anyone know if there ARE issues with the Raptor 150 and nForce IDE drivers?

I personally don't have any issues with nVidia SATA drivers and the Raptor 150.

Well I ran chkdsk again, and once again it cleaned up these minor inconsistencies on the drive.

I think the drive may be faulty. It may be time to think about an RMA.

Also I didn't see an answer to my overclocking question.

 

[DasFox]

BFG10K not everything I have read online or seen, shows this as a hard drive failure. There seems to be quite a few people with this issue and even Microsoft mentions this. Look at all these URLS:

http://217.115.198.3/content/topic/12946/?o=20

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244780/en-us

Now the only thing that is starting to make me think of failure is I'm always getting minor inconsistencies on the drive, now that doesn't seem to be correct.

No, nothing is overclocked.


THANKS

 

[DasFox]

I went back in the BIOS, I have 2 IDE controllers and 4 SATA and I'm only using 1 IDE and 1 SATA, so I disabled the secondary IDE controller and 2 SATA, because they are on banks of 2, together, I disabled 3/4 and left on 1/2.

Then I reinstalled the nForce IDE driver and I'm not getting the 'Event ID 51' warnings, but the only thing and I'm not 100% on this, but everytime I run chkdsk, not from the command prompt but on a reboot I get like these cleanups:

Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 2 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 2 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 2 unused security descriptors.

I swear over the years, when I ran chkdsk on other boxes I had, I only saw this 'Cleaning up minor inconsistencies' once and great while, but with this Raptor it is cleaning them everytime I run it, is this normal?

THANKS

 

[DasFox]

Ok I just got off the phone with WD Enterprise support they said I should run a low level format which will also test the drive and if there are no errors on this besides the fact I did not get any with the Quick and Extended test then the hard drive has no problem and it looks more like in incompatibility.

 

[Lord Evermore]

It's not a good idea to have two different threads going for the same problem.

 

[Broly]

I agree on this, Das.

You should have bumped your original post.

 

[ScottWRR2]

I'm having these exact same chkdsk errors on every bootup with the same hardware config (Maxtor 150GB Raptor and an Abit KN8-SLI) - I just built the machine, installed Windows, and when chkdsk ran it hosed my data. Sounds like some kind of incompatibility here. I had no such corruption or errors with this drive and an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe. I'm going to ditch this Abit board.