silicon image 680 ata raid card

Weeeeeeee... it's alive, it's alive. I'd given up getting this working but found some newer raid drivers on Sabrent website. Did an upgrade over the older non-working ones and now I can see all my drives.
Now if only I could get my HP Photosmart 7150 printer and Canon 4200F scanner working I'd have all my hardware up and running.

"Peter M" wrote in message

Weeeeeeee... it's alive, it's alive. I'd given up getting this working but found some newer raid drivers on Sabrent website. Did an upgrade over the older non-working ones and now I can see all my drives.
Now if only I could get my HP Photosmart 7150 printer and Canon 4200F scanner working I'd have all my hardware up and running.

Also have Silicon Image 680 ATA/Raid Card controlling my Vista Disk partition. The driver set up went ok as did Vista Installation, but after a couple of sessions on Vista I started getting 'Corrupt Disk ... run Chkdsk' messages. Chkdsk appeared not to complete (insufficient disk space for bitmap image) so have been using a Disk Manager under XP to check the drive (plenty on indexing errors). Now reoccurs after every two/three sessions on Vista. Have put the problem on windows.vista.general but no one else seems to have reported any similar problems so cannot not be sure whether it is simply a driver problem or an unreported bug. Will be interested to see if you experience any similar problems.
GeoffP

Are you running in raid or non-raid. I'm running non-raid. I wonder if turning indexing off would fix the corruption? Well I will see how it goes.
"GeoffP" wrote in message

"Peter M" wrote in message Weeeeeeee... it's alive, it's alive. I'd given up getting this working but found some newer raid drivers on Sabrent website. Did an upgrade over the older non-working ones and now I can see all my drives.
Now if only I could get my HP Photosmart 7150 printer and Canon 4200F scanner working I'd have all my hardware up and running.
Also have Silicon Image 680 ATA/Raid Card controlling my Vista Disk partition. The driver set up went ok as did Vista Installation, but after a couple of sessions on Vista I started getting 'Corrupt Disk ... run Chkdsk' messages. Chkdsk appeared not to complete (insufficient disk space for bitmap image) so have been using a Disk Manager under XP to check the drive (plenty on indexing errors). Now reoccurs after every two/three sessions on Vista. Have put the problem on windows.vista.general but no one else seems to have reported any similar problems so cannot not be sure whether it is simply a driver problem or an unreported bug. Will be interested to see if you experience any similar problems.
GeoffP

Non-raid.
Had two corrupt sessions one after the other earlier this evening. Will give it a few more days but am seriously thinking of re-installing Vista on a partition managed by the motherboard ide controller and just using the 680 Card partitions for data. It's either that or putting it on a virtual system (VM Ware or Virtual Server 2005 R2 - something I know very little about, but sounds like a good idea).
Even with some drivers missing, I still like the feel of Vista and would like to see how it handles day-to-day routines but can't trust it with this disk corruption problem. Most of my hardware (network, printer and even my 10 year old Microtek SCSI Scanner) is working ok so apart from this one problem I do appear to have a fully working system so no complaints from me.
If you do encounter any corruption problems please e-mail (or post here) to let me know as I am leaning more towards it being a Driver problem rather than a Vista problem and just need that little push to re-install on a different partition.
Geoff
"Peter M" wrote in message

Are you running in raid or non-raid. I'm running non-raid. I wonder if turning indexing off would fix the corruption? Well I will see how it goes.
"GeoffP" wrote in message
"Peter M" wrote in message Weeeeeeee... it's alive, it's alive. I'd given up getting this working but found some newer raid drivers on Sabrent website. Did an upgrade over the older non-working ones and now I can see all my drives.
Now if only I could get my HP Photosmart 7150 printer and Canon 4200F scanner working I'd have all my hardware up and running.
Also have Silicon Image 680 ATA/Raid Card controlling my Vista Disk partition. The driver set up went ok as did Vista Installation, but after a couple of sessions on Vista I started getting 'Corrupt Disk ... run Chkdsk' messages. Chkdsk appeared not to complete (insufficient disk space for bitmap image) so have been using a Disk Manager under XP to check the drive (plenty on indexing errors). Now reoccurs after every two/three sessions on Vista. Have put the problem on windows.vista.general but no one else seems to have reported any similar problems so cannot not be sure whether it is simply a driver problem or an unreported bug. Will be interested to see if you experience any similar problems.
GeoffP

Day 3 and all is good. No corruption seen. You never said what driver ver. you were using. I install with my original disk and install the non-raid driver (ver 1.0.1.2) and it never could start, then I installed some raid drivers I got of sabrent.com (sbt-rdit-1) that were ver. 1.0.1.7 and just upgraded the drivers from device manager and they worked. Don't know if it made a difference but I also installed the config util from sabrent's site (sbt-rdit-3).

"Peter M" wrote in message

Day 3 and all is good. No corruption seen. You never said what driver ver. you were using. I install with my original disk and install the non-raid driver (ver 1.0.1.2) and it never could start, then I installed some raid drivers I got of sabrent.com (sbt-rdit-1) that were ver. 1.0.1.7 and just upgraded the drivers from device manager and they worked. Don't know if it made a difference but I also installed the config util from sabrent's site (sbt-rdit-3). Same drivers (ver. 1.0.1.7 direct from Silicon Image), but it doesn't look

as if the drivers were the problem as I have just removed the controller card and connected the HD to the motherboard controller, reformatted the partition and re-installed Vista and still have the problem. So back to the drawing board. I've reported it to MS as a possible bug, but suspect it is something specific to my hardware/drivers.
Geoff

Failing HD? Have you tested the drive with the manufacter's diag utilities? Be worth a shot especailly if the warranty is still good.
"GeoffP" wrote in message

"Peter M" wrote in message Day 3 and all is good. No corruption seen. You never said what driver ver. you were using. I install with my original disk and install the non-raid driver (ver 1.0.1.2) and it never could start, then I installed some raid drivers I got of sabrent.com (sbt-rdit-1) that were ver. 1.0.1.7 and just upgraded the drivers from device manager and they worked. Don't know if it made a difference but I also installed the config util from sabrent's site (sbt-rdit-3). Same drivers (ver. 1.0.1.7 direct from Silicon Image), but it doesn't look as if the drivers were the problem as I have just removed the controller card and connected the HD to the motherboard controller, reformatted the partition and re-installed Vista and still have the problem. So back to the drawing board. I've reported it to MS as a possible bug, but suspect it is something specific to my hardware/drivers.
Geoff

Had thought of that but no, don't think so. Have checked both the drives thoroughly (using Acronis Disk Manager) and used different partitions and drives for the two installations (and getting the same random 'Corrupt Disk' messages)and nothing else is affected. Looking at the eventviewer, it would appear that some of these errors have been corrected by NTFS (going by logged times) but whichever way I use chkdsk, the number of errors corrected by Vista itself is relatively small and the majority are repaired by chkdisk
As no one else appears to be having this type of problem I guess there must be something amiss in my setup (hardware or software) and will persevere with it for a few more days and if it doesn't improve I will try the Vista setup on a virtual drive. Unfortunately I have started to lose files because of this problem (antivirus and system files) so another re-instal, of some kind, would appear to be on the cards. The annoying thing is I eventually managed to get my nVidia Graphics Card working with Aero Glass after about a week of trying (simply by increasing my AGP Aperture, in BIOS, to 256/512Mb) and everything is working just as it should apart from this b****y 'Corrupt File' problem.
Geoff
"Peter M" wrote in message

Failing HD? Have you tested the drive with the manufacter's diag utilities? Be worth a shot especailly if the warranty is still good.
"GeoffP" wrote in message
"Peter M" wrote in message Day 3 and all is good. No corruption seen. You never said what driver ver. you were using. I install with my original disk and install the non-raid driver (ver 1.0.1.2) and it never could start, then I installed some raid drivers I got of sabrent.com (sbt-rdit-1) that were ver. 1.0.1.7 and just upgraded the drivers from device manager and they worked. Don't know if it made a difference but I also installed the config util from sabrent's site (sbt-rdit-3). Same drivers (ver. 1.0.1.7 direct from Silicon Image), but it doesn't look as if the drivers were the problem as I have just removed the controller card and connected the HD to the motherboard controller, reformatted the partition and re-installed Vista and still have the problem. So back to the drawing board. I've reported it to MS as a possible bug, but suspect it is something specific to my hardware/drivers.
Geoff