Re: Big disk - problems - (long-ish)

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all who replied about the (un)reliability of the Highpoint
controllers on the ABIT M/boards. I've been away for the last few days, and
the PC has been OK over the entire period and is still up & running
fine -
so it's great so long as I don't actually try to USE it!  :-(

Before I went, I did notice a couple of things though....

1) the blue screen error is actually DRIVER_IRQL_LESS_THAN_EQUAL not just
IRQL_LESS_THAN_EQUAL and it occurs in module HPT366.SYS

2) It doesn't ONLY happen if the disk is accessed over the LAN - I tried to
play some MP3's locally and it crashed about 30 seconds into the first
track.

3) BIZZARRELY, I can perfectly happily copy GB's of MP3's ONTO the disk
over
the LAN - I copied 9 CD's worth from my laptop with no problem whatsoever.
-
It seems that writes to the disk are fine, but reads from it (either local
or remote) cause it to die.

Given the problems that many of you seem to be having with this controller,
I think I will take the advice offered and buy a Promise ATA-100
controller.
(damn, Scan are closed until Jan 2nd...)

Cheers all.

Paul G.





>From: Vince <vince@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Big disk - problems - (long-ish)
>Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 23:21:16 +0000
>
>Paul, Ian,
>
>The IRQL_LESS_THAN_EQUAL bluescreen crash has started happening now
every
>day on my test W2K machine with a HPT370CR@P controller but on my BP6
>machine (2 x 400CPU, W2K & all disks on the inbuilt HPT366) it
never
>happens. So it looks like I'll be getting a Promise ATA-100/66
controller
>for my test machine!
>
>Vince
>
>At 19:05 23/12/00, you wrote:
> >Paul, be very, very careful with that configuration.
> >
> >I have the SMP version of that motherboard in my server, and had
similar
> >problems with the Highpoint Controller. I found that in addition
to the
> >IRQL_LESS_THAN_EQUAL bluescreen crash, the controller was
corrupting
>data.
> >
> >I had captured video, which suddenly started getting visible
glitches,
>even
> >though the initial capture was good. when I copied the data from
the
>server
> >to my PC and back a few times, on each succesive copy, the video
got
>worse
> >and worse, until it crashed VirtualDub outright.
> >
> >I now have a promise PCI controller card installed, and it has
been
>perfect
> >from Day One.
> >
> >Personally, I think the HPT controllers are a pile of cr*p, and
have had
> >tons of problems with friends PCs etc using them. My advice: spend
the
>£22
> >on a Promise ATA-100/66 controller. It'll save much hair pulling
and
> >possibly a lot, lot worse......
> >
> >Ian.
>

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