Questions tagged [disk-controller]
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Do algorithms for preventing SSD wearout exist? [duplicate]
For the sake of drives' (SSDs primarily) longevity, do there exist managing algorithms (built-in or optional/addition/third-party) implemented in drives' controllers or operating systems that take ...
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SSD or storage controller lag when copy files
I have 240GB Lexar NQ100 SSD in my old laptop (max read/write speed 500MB/s), split in two 100GB partitions, first partition is OS Windows 7 other empty so far.
I have copied 40GB of files one big ...
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How do I get these ports enabled?
I have a qNine 6 port data pcie controller card that will not enable ports 5 and 6. Or rather the card at boot does not display the HDDs attached. The card, however, does indicate there is some thing ...
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Is debugging bad hard-drives possible by intercepting SATA packages? [closed]
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Is there any way of debugging bad (as in no longer recognized) hard-drives?
Ideally an open-source tool that can interact with the device to capture/interpret SATA communication and ...
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Why can't a RAID controller mimic a drive controllers actions on a URE?
There is a fact: a URE renders an entire member of a RAID array as bad, but a URE DOES NOT render an entire drive as bad outside of an array. What is the technical difference that causes this? They ...
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How is it possible in this `cat` process that more bytes are being written than read?
I ran the following bash command to merge several big files
cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt > merged.txt
The process is very long as the files make about 12 GB each. On the activity ...
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Dell PERC H310 suporta HDD 4kn?
Does anyone know if the controller PERC H310 supports HDD 4kN?
Recently I bought the HDD HGST HUS726020ALN610 2TB but when connecting can not configure.
The message PD MGMT:
Capacity: 232.37
State: ...
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External Hard Drive Problems in Event Viewer
I'm using a Western Digital My Passport Ultra (2TB) 1.5 years ago and I've recently been seeing a lot of problems with this external drive in event viewer.
So far, whenever I connect this to the ...
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SATA III PCI-E controller card hangs installers / live CD
This is a long shot, but figured I'd ask here to see if anyone has a solution to my problem.
I was wanting to put together an inexpensive file server, so I picked up an ECS motherboard that has an on ...
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Floppy Disk to ??? Controller
I have a motherboard which has:
SATA
IDE
Internal USB headers
I need to attach a floppy disk drive, but there is no onboard floppy disk controller. I've looked for the following:
Internal USB ...
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Diagnosing disk i/o errors, failing disk controllers
My PC has been constantly crashing with disk i/o errors recently and I'm trying to diagnose what the cause is before I order any new parts.
I have windows 7 installed on a ssd (with truecrypt) and I ...
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Disk I/O controller performance
I am building an home server with an old HP media center m8125x (link for all specs : http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documentSubCategory?tmp_rule=23238&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&...
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How do I migrate a single drive (no RAID) running under RAID controller, to AHCI mode without losing the GPT partition on it?
I have a 3 TB drive formatted with the GPT partition style. I use it for data on my Windows 7 PC. I've made the drive accessible via the mount point D:
My motherboard's HDD controller mode has been ...
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i/o Bus Standards & Device Controllers
I'm really confused about bus standards like ide,ata,sata,pci etc.
I have just read this article :When a disk read or disk write occurs, where does the data go? So if we talk about hard disk drive; ...
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SSD stopped working suddenly. Any chance of data recovery?
I have been using a Corsair Force 3 (120GB) SSD since last 1.5 years.
Yesterday, the laptop freezed suddenly and I had to hard reset it.
Then it refused to boot as if no HDD was installed. This has ...
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What is the total SATA bandwidth of the Intel Z68 chipset?
Take a look at this page for the Intel Z68 chipset: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/mainstream-chipsets/z68-express-chipset.html
In the diagram, the line connecting the chipset to the ...
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creating new raid 5 volume
I recently purchased and installed a HighPoint HIRR2640X4SG RAID Controller card. I installed three 2 TB hard drives, and created the array:
I booted and went into Disk Management in WHS 2011. I was ...
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Windows XP Repair Install BSOD After changing Virtual HDD Controller
I vm'ed an old windows XP installation using VirtualBox and it runs/ran fine after the normal ritual of performing a repair install.
I noticed VirtualBox by default set my hard drive controller to ...
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Can I put any sized hard disk into an enclosure from 2005?
I have a 300 gig Maxtor One Touch II external USB II harddrive from about 2005 which has recently failed, and I have successfully put an older, smaller disk in there to make sure that it is the disk ...
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Which drive is \Device\Harddisk1\DR1?
While I was trying to find out why the main disk is performing a form of unexpained "thrashing"(while there was no RAM issue), freezing up apps temporarily, I found a relevant error in the logs:
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Wndows IDE port error
I am getting the following error in Windows 7 log:
Event 11, atapi: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2.
How can I find out which controller and drive that corresponds ...
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Which disk is \Devide\HarddiskX\drX?
I'm randomly getting errors in the System Log about a "Controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR3"; this may be of course a driver error, a NTFS error, or, more seriously, a failing disk.
But I have ...
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RAID Controller Questions
I have a P8Z68-V Pro Motherboard and two 500GB 7200rpm hard drives that I used to have in a RAID0 configuration using the Z68 bios level raid. However, I've run into trouble in the past trying to ...
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Is it possible to detect the previous byte position on a hard drive after it has been overwritten?
I keep hearing about these statements that "a hard drive is like a cassette tape because it is a magnetic medium". That got me thinking...
Back in the day when I used to play DJ as a young lad, I ...
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Tool to retrieve information about which hard-disk is connected to which disk-controller (Windows)?
When servicing servers I often find lots of various disks connected to several HD-controllers.
To find and replace a specific disk in a server filled with disks often becomes rather tedious.
So the ...
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When a disk read or disk write occurs, where does the data go?
I understand that there is such a thing as a disk controller which contains a buffer, but was wondering if the CPU reads directly from this buffer, or whether the data must first go to a specific ...
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Intermittent high disk response times
My computer has started to pause and frequently crash. When I say pause, I don't mean everything freezes, as parts of the user interface and some programs are still responsive. My processor load is ...
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Disk corrupting over and over
I have re-installed windows, both the Vista Home Premium x86 that came on it and Win7 Pro x64. I am using Gateway GT5674 with an AMD Phenom quad core CPU. Everything is stock except the GeForce GT ...
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Can 97 reallocated sectors (stable for months) cause freezes on the system via disk read/write delays?
I heard that reallocated sectors reported in S.M.A.R.T. data can cause delays in operation; is it true? I get freezes (temporarily) of videos and games for seconds while the hard drive led appears to ...
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Is it safe to switch between disk controllers
I have both Windows XP and Windows 7 installed on my laptop. XP needs the IDE disk controller. While 7 needs AHCI. I have to switch between these 2 modes before I could use one of them. Does it have ...
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