re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Monday, October 13, 2003 at 10:45 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jim
(7 messages posted)
I am concerned with this update. If you have two 120 gig hard drives (1 being slaved,
other being master) attached to a single IDE connection, does this update apply?
Does it hurt applying this update if not needed??
I am thinking having two 120 gig hard drives togther makes XP total the drives to
240 gig, even though they are seperate drives.
I am also giving an update with this problem I have been having. The Aopen manufacture
feels the IDE controller might be bad causing file corruption. Even the 80 wire ribbon
cable could be bad as well. I decided to purchase a new motherboard......hoping for
a fix.
On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 3:21 pm, Zippy wrote:
>This is a copy of a post I made at another forum with a possible solution.
>
>Id already tried all the usual things that have been suggested here. Like most people
>my main suspicion was the early power off problem - so to eliminate this I hot wired
>the PSU to provide power all the time and ignore the power off signal from the motherboard
>- and I still got the same corruption on reboot.
>
>After searching and trying numerous vaguely related patches and fixes from MS I
came
>across Q331958 - 137GB ATAPI driver limit in XP (in all versions of XP upto and
including
>SP1). Id noticed this before but as it said it only applied to Hibernate and kernal
>dumps I hadn't bothered installing it.
>
>To quote from MS "The ATAPI driver for Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) does not
use
>48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) when it writes memory dump files or hibernation
>files. Additionally, the flush cache command is not issued to a large hard disk
that
>has 48-bit LBA enabled when Windows XP enters standby or hibernation"
>
>However I thought I might as well install it - and so far after 10 reboots I havent
>had one chkdsk or any other sign of corruption.
>
>Either thats a 1 in a million coincidence or MS are being economical with the truth
>and the bug applies to ALL disk accesses. I was also under the impression that as
>most IDE Raid devices used virtual SCSI devices that these ATAPI problems shouldn't
>apply.
>
>For anyone thats interested in trying this -
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];331958
>
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