Delay Write Failed - ALL Maxtor SATA's with P4S800-E Deluxe

[Stoneh]

Hi,

I have 4 Drives, 2 IDE and 2 SATA - ASUS p4s800d-e deluxe(sis655TX) and Radeon9800 PRO, 1GB Twinmos RAM

80GB Maxtor (IDE) - working perfect
250GB Maxtor (IDE) - working perfect

200GB WD (SATA) - Working Perfect
250GB Maxtor (SATA) - Problem Drive

The Maxtor is brand new and its my 2nd one, the 1st one was a 160GB that was new too and had the same problems, as soon as I access or copy files to it, my system grinds to a halt and the dreaded message pops up. I cant understand why one is working and other isnt, the only diff between my SATA drives is that the WD is UDMA mode 5 and the Maxtor is UDMA6

but the 80 GB IDE is UDMA6 too. Ive tried swapping the SATA drives over, tried it just with the Maxtor one still no joy, updated the ASPI drivers, ensured the LargeSystemCache is 0 in registry, if out of options....

Im running them as single drives not in any RAID config.

Over to you guys.... and thanks for looking at my post, I've had no answer from Maxtor on this.

The Drive works perfect in another PC (875P based M/B). Can anyone confirm they have a Maxtor SATA drive running OK with this motherboard?

[michaeljclark]

From seeing this message before it's normally a failing drive (although you would be unlucky to have it happen twice - I think its called sods law!?!) , but others may know a more complete answer :confuse2:

[Stoneh]

Drive is Ok - Just added this to my first post.

Can anyone confirm they have a proper Maxtor SATA drive running Ok on this Motherboard? most of you guys seem to have either Seagate or WD SATA drives.... Me knows why now!!

[fireball_abx]

Humm, I have the same problem with the IDE Maxtor 40G drive a while back with the exact same error but the error comes up after I modify the registry for the large system cache. I am not sure this is what happens with your hard drive. Hope this help you to trouble shoot your problem.

[iMogal]

I have a single 120Gig SATA Maxtor drive and it works great...
The only time I ran into some problems, is when I hooked up a IDE HDD to the MoBo... the performance of the SATA drive halved.
(This performance issue be fixed yet?)

Other then that, been running great...

[VSEKH]

I've got a friend with this mobo and a Maxtor 250GB SATA hard drive. He has not had any problems.

What is the stop error message you get?

[Stoneh]

Fireball,

I have read that post and tried everything suggested.

The error i get is the pop up near the clock icon "Delayed Write Failure" blah blah

the file im copying is lost and the system slows to a crawl. Maybe its conflicting with the Maxtor IDE's?? but ive tried it in all SATA channels. could it be the mini IDE drivers?? I know someone else who also is having the same problem with the maxtor SATA drive

[fireball_abx]

Hi Stoneh,

Which version of SIS IDE driver you are using? You may try to uninstall it and see whether or not your SATA Maxtor drive works.

[Stoneh]

Was using some SiS driver, removed it and it auto installed another SIS driver, standard one I think, I selected the standard windows dual channel IDE driver now. Still no joy with any of them

[fluffedup]

Hey guys...new to the forums.....

I'll throw my two cents into the discussion....

I have the motherboard in question, a Maxtor 160GB SATA drive, and I get stop errors [blue screens] at least once per day.

I'm running Windows XP Professional. Sometimes I get the 'delay write failed' message, and other times it blue screens giving the stop code,
0x000077 or 0x000007a. Sometimes when Windows restarts after the blue screen, it will say that it's recovered from a serious error and that the error was "Windows could temporarily not read from the hard drive," so I assume that these error codes have something to do with Windows losing contact [obviously] with the drives.

Other times, I do get get the "Delayed Write Failed" message next to the clock.

Windows is on the 160GB SATA Maxtor, and there's another 120GB IDE Maxtor plugged into the IDE channel driven by the SiS180, as my three optical drives use the "onboard" IDE channels. [In case you're wondering, it's setup like that (with no hard drives on the onboard IDE's) , because the case I have makes it pretty impossible to have a harddrive plugged into the same ribbon cable as an optical drive [it's an Antec Sonata...the harddrives go towards the bottom of the case...optical drives towards the top].

Oh yeah...I'm using the 2.03 IDE drivers and the 1.05 RAID drivers. Neither harddrive is setup in some sort of RAID, and the SATA drive is plugged into the SATA ports of the south bridge, not the 180 chip. I tried plugging into those ports, but Windows wouldn't boot and didn't want to fight with it.

Thanks....just sharing my [bad] experiences too...

Dan

[michaeljclark]

I've just had a thought - and it's gonna sound silly

I had an IBM T30 laptop that was doing that a little while back so I ran drive fitness over it, came back OK. Then since it was formatted FAT32 (which is VERY secure for the corporate environment ) I upped it to NTFS, problem went away. I'm not suggesting this is a fix, but I thought I'd throw it in

[celsmk]

I´ve got a 80GB SATA Maxtor and a 80GB SATA Seagate disks, with no problems at all.

[fluffedup]

Hmm...to be more complete, I'll give some more information about how I have my SATA drive setup. Maybe there's a chance that those of us having the problems have some sort of common thread beyond a Maxtor drive.

I have the 160GB SATA drive; it's split into 3 partitions. Windows is on partition 1 which is set as 6GB [why? easier to back up the entire Windows partition when it's smaller...that way ASR can be utilized by placing the backup on a different harddrive and it takes up "only" 6ish gigabytes....having recovered with ASR, it's been a lifesaver]

partition 2: 32GB assorted stuff
partition 3: 115GB more assorted stuff

[answering the question no one probably cares the answer to: those two partitions exist because I replaced two harddrives with this one Maxtor...the [old] first drive was copied to partition 2, the second [old] drive was copied to partition 3.......'program files' are on the IDE Maxtor which doesn't seem to be the problem]

In short...my Maxtor SATA drive has 3 partitions....all NTFS.

For those who've gotten the 964 to work with a Maxtor drive, how many partitions is your drive split into? [I know, I'd guess it doesn't have too much to do with anything, but it could be something.]

Thanks,
Dan

[celsmk]

Dan, my 80MB Maxtor SATA disk has also 3 partitions: drives "C" and "D", all NTFS, and an unallocated partition.
What is 964

[fluffedup]

the 964 is the "southbridge" of the p4s800d-e motherboard. This is the chip that controls the the higher-level operations of the board. The "northbridge" is the chip that is generally advertised. In my case, the chip is the SiS655TX. These two chips, the 655TX and 964 "talk" to each other to move data from the drives, USB ports, etc. to the CPU, RAM, etc.

On the board that I have, the 964 [the "southbridge"] drives two SATA devices [and numerous other things], and the SiS180 chip, which is separate from this 964 chip drives two more SATA devices as well as two IDE devices.

There's a chance that, depending on whether the SATA drive is going through the 964 or 180, problems could be tied to one of the chips.

This page on SiS' webpage explains what their southbridges do depending on model number....
Southbridges

Thanks,
Dan