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re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Tuesday, April 1, 2003 at 6:48 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by JJstecchino
(1 messages posted)
Very interesting thread. I also have a sil3112 sata raid controller with two wdigital
120gb 8mb cache in raid 0 with ntfs. I use a SATA to Parallel ATA converter for these
drives. My boot drive is a wd 100gb 2 mb cache also witn ntfs connected as a master
drive to the primary IDE controller. What is interesting is that I am not experiencing
any file corruption on the boot drives but lots of errors on the SATA Raid. Fairly
frequently I find corrupted and unusable files. This setup is almost unusable. The
RAID setup worked well on initial setup so I was thinking the problem was with the
raid controller or with the disks gone bad. The disks support SMART and smart reports
them as healthy, so I was blaming the motherboard and the sil sata controller. I
was about to return it. The problem is not on shutdown, it is file write, randomly
some files are corrupted. From the initial setup I installed sp1 and the MS suggested
patches. I am going to try FAT32 if it supports a large (240gb) drive or I am going
to try to use XP software raid and see if it works better. Also the raid disks are
70% full and who knows if that matter (poor handling of large drives?) Any sugestion
on the problem appreciated.
On Sunday, January 5, 2003 at 7:33 pm, Peter Shkabara wrote:
>I don't think that NTFS per se is to blame. I ran it on NT 3.1 through NT 3.51 and
>never had any problems. From other forums I have been to, it seems that Win2k and
>XP have introduced a change in NTFS that indeed has a problem. Some users say that
>if you format to FAT32 and then convert to NTFS the problem goes away - but the
NTFS
>done that way is different from formatting using XP directly. I have not tried it
>yet, but am tempted to do so since my computer keeps getting corrupted - unless
I
>don't use shutdown!
>
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| |  | Sins of NTFS (Down For The Count: Thu, Jan 22, 2004, 8:22 pm) |
|  | re: (Tong Narak: Tue, Jan 25, 2005, 6:43 pm) |
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