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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: "The driver detected a controller error on…
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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 location in memory, and then allow itself to be read…
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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 happened earlier a couple of times. Usually, after…
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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 itself rather than the controller which has…
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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 would record music off the radio while played as…
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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 started getting BSODs related to the disk. I can…
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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 IDE even though it's really a SATA disk under the…
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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 multiboot, as some OSes see through the bios level…
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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 typically 0 - 1% at these points and the…
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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 be on and I suspect it's that. But the (97)…
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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 any effect on the health of my laptop?
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Is debugging bad hard-drives possible by intercepting SATA packages?

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 issue error codes such as "platters stuck", "head…
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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 monitor (Mac OSX 10.11.3), under the tab called Disk,…
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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: Blocked Thank you. With this information better…
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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 in RAID for some time. Recently I tried switching…
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