Questions tagged [disk-controller]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is debugging bad hard-drives possible by intercepting SATA packages? [closed]
My question
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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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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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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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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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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