Problem with RAID Controller Card
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Posted by Stephen Bailey
(2 messages posted)
I have recently upgraded my raid controller in my windows 2003 server. It was a
PCI ATA 133 Raid card, but appeared to be an older model for I could not boot into
the hardware raid part of it, there were no options to do so. The new card which
is also a PCI ATA 133 Raid Card does give me that ability but it too is giving me
an error when I try to access disk 1 whether I am writing, reading, formatting, etc.
The error I recieve is this:
Event ID 117
The driver for device \Device\Scsi\iteraid1 detected a port timeout due to
prolonged inactivity. All associated busses were reset in an effort to clear the
condition
What does this errror mean? This is a brand new card, and shouldn't be giving me
problems yet it is.
This was actually an error I recieved periodically with the older card. I just thought
for some reason the old card would not allow me to do software raid (since I was
not able to access the hardware raid portion of it). That was my main reason for
upgrading was purchasing a card that advertised raid capability. This is a brand
new card and is giving me errors that the old one did some of the time. I can access
Disk 2 and perform on it whatever I need to do and don't have any problems at all.
I have swapped the disks around, the disk caddy's they reside in, changed the IDE
cables, etc, but nothing has gotten rid of this error. The error does not follow
the disks it just appears to be apparent on whichever disk the card thinks is DISK
1. Shouldn't this card allow me to do software raid in disk management? For right
now I just prefer doing software versus hardware.
Any help would be appreciated. Please respond as soon as possible
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re: Problem with RAID Controller Card
Friday, February 15, 2008 at 7:29 am
Posted by Curt R
(769 messages posted)
First off, knowing the exact make/model of the controller would be very helpful.
You should always include details on the hardware involved when asking a question
like this. Secondly, have you emailed or phoned the support people for the
manufacturer yet? If not, I highly recommend doing so before you do anything else. Lastly,
because this is the exact same error your received with the old card, it leads me
to believe it may be an issue with the server's hardware and not the RAID controller.
Do you have another server you could try the controller in to test? If yes, plug
it in there, attach a couple drives and see what happens. If the card works properly,
then you know it's the system.
On Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 7:23 pm, Stephen Bailey wrote:
>I have recently upgraded my raid controller in my windows 2003 server. It was a
>PCI ATA 133 Raid card, but appeared to be an older model for I could not boot into
>the hardware raid part of it, there were no options to do so. The new card which
>is also a PCI ATA 133 Raid Card does give me that ability but it too is giving me
>an error when I try to access disk 1 whether I am writing, reading, formatting,
etc.
> The error I recieve is this:
>
> Event ID 117
> The driver for device \Device\Scsi\iteraid1 detected a port timeout due
to
>prolonged inactivity. All associated busses were reset in an effort to clear the
>condition
>
>What does this errror mean? This is a brand new card, and shouldn't be giving me
>problems yet it is.
>
>This was actually an error I recieved periodically with the older card. I just
thought
>for some reason the old card would not allow me to do software raid (since I was
>not able to access the hardware raid portion of it). That was my main reason for
>upgrading was purchasing a card that advertised raid capability. This is a brand
>new card and is giving me errors that the old one did some of the time. I can access
>Disk 2 and perform on it whatever I need to do and don't have any problems at all.
>
>
>I have swapped the disks around, the disk caddy's they reside in, changed the IDE
>cables, etc, but nothing has gotten rid of this error. The error does not follow
>the disks it just appears to be apparent on whichever disk the card thinks is DISK
>1. Shouldn't this card allow me to do software raid in disk management? For right
>now I just prefer doing software versus hardware.
>
>Any help would be appreciated. Please respond as soon as possible
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