I have an Areca 1220 Raid controller with 4 drive raid 5 and 2 drive raid 0.
win7 x64 12gb ram, x58 motherboard 920 proc default settings.
Recently i have been having strange system hangs when trying to copy files from raid 0 to the raid 5 drives. or even just heavy use on either. the problem is the problem is getting worse requiring less and less activity to cause the hang. windows doesn't crash completly but explorer crashes and never comes back. i loose browse ability on drives connected to the raid.
System events is reporting
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR3. but i am not sure what that means or how to identify what drive it is. there are 50 or more of these errors. my raid controller is not reporting any issues with the drive.
after the simi hang windows cannot properly shut down it hangs on logging off screen after forced shutdown. I have to Force Poweroff to get my system stable again.
My possible guesses for the issue are Power as reported by Areca support or a drive is dieing (as this is similar to an issue i had in the past). all the drives in the raids are seagate's 4x1tb and 2x360Gb.
the last time i had this issue it was with certain model numbers of the seagate 1tb drives. strangely enough the drives identified in the past work fine as standalone but hang in raids.
Any ideas how i can troubleshoot this issue?
Thanks
War
win7 x64 12gb ram, x58 motherboard 920 proc default settings.
Recently i have been having strange system hangs when trying to copy files from raid 0 to the raid 5 drives. or even just heavy use on either. the problem is the problem is getting worse requiring less and less activity to cause the hang. windows doesn't crash completly but explorer crashes and never comes back. i loose browse ability on drives connected to the raid.
System events is reporting
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR3. but i am not sure what that means or how to identify what drive it is. there are 50 or more of these errors. my raid controller is not reporting any issues with the drive.
after the simi hang windows cannot properly shut down it hangs on logging off screen after forced shutdown. I have to Force Poweroff to get my system stable again.
My possible guesses for the issue are Power as reported by Areca support or a drive is dieing (as this is similar to an issue i had in the past). all the drives in the raids are seagate's 4x1tb and 2x360Gb.
the last time i had this issue it was with certain model numbers of the seagate 1tb drives. strangely enough the drives identified in the past work fine as standalone but hang in raids.
Any ideas how i can troubleshoot this issue?
Thanks
War