Random Write Protect in Vista 64bit

[ants]

I am getting a Random Write Protect issue in Vista 64bit.

For no reason one of my 6 drives randomly enables write protect leaving it useless for anything but reading from. Its an internal 640gig SATAII WD non raid config. I have seen this issue growing but people are believing that its their drives. It Isn't!!! Its defiantly a bug in Vista64bit and more to the point I think its only started since SP1.

Anybody else have this or know a fix?

cheers

ants

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[crabby]

I doubt it's a vista64 bug. But I agree, it's not the drive. I would go as far to say it's the loading of the driver. Have you checked if the manufacturer of the driver has released their own driver for it or are you just using the generic one?

What drive is it?

crabby

[ants]

Hiya crabby. Pretty sure its a bug mate. Its random, could be any one of my six WD's or 3 seagates, different one each time, some reboots its fine some reboots leave me with one drive write protected.

Do a search on google for "random write protect" it always comes up as an issue and always on 64bit Vista. Its got to be a bug crabby.

[crabby]

I can only think of one thing then... power options. It may be that for some reason when the drives idle, the protect themselves? I really don't know, but I suppose it's worth a try. In power options just set it to performance mode, or if you want to be a little more techy choose the specific options through the advanced options section.

Strange :scared: I use Vista 64 and have 4 drives by 3 different manufacturers and have never once had this issue.

crabby

[ants]

I think I worked it out crabby mate. I bought 2 SATA DVD burners. I connected them to the motherboard. I used the SATAII4 & SATAII5 on the MB I then attached two of my WD500GB drives to the "G"SATAIIA & B (3GB sec). Ive never liked those as I think they are only good for a raid config. There holds my problem. At random they would write protect themselves.

I have now moved my 2 SATA DVD burners to the GSATAII connections and moved my WD500GB drives back to SATAII4 & 5 and the issue has stopped. Obviously there is something about the GSATAII factor I don't get or havent done to have them run right. I have looked at the BIOS and cant see any option to run them as normal SATAII connections.

I have run raid0 on the GSATAII's before and the performance didnt stand up to the normal SATAII at all so I dont get gigabytes approach at all.

I think I have too many drives lolz. My MB is full (8 drives) and I have another 4 WD500gb drives via USBII

Maybe you know something I dont crabby about Gigabytes 3gb Sec GSATAII system?

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Apart from all that its nice to have the time to get back in here again.

cheers

Originally Posted by crabby

I can only think of one thing then... power options. It may be that for some reason when the drives idle, the protect themselves? I really don't know, but I suppose it's worth a try. In power options just set it to performance mode, or if you want to be a little more techy choose the specific options through the advanced options section.

Strange :scared: I use Vista 64 and have 4 drives by 3 different manufacturers and have never once had this issue.

crabby

[crabby]

Ooooo! Aren't they the 'out of order' data accessing fantabyhoobymewotsits!!!

I'm pretty sure I heard that gigabyte had created a system where by different data can be accessed at the same time and 'out of order' hence increasing the bandwidth used by the hard drive. 'Natvie' something or other.

It never really made much sense to me and sounded like they could have an issue where by reformed data could become corrupted. And I guess it's still got a couple of issues!

Glad you fixed it... hopefully they update either their bios or their motherboard utilitise accordingly!

crabby

[ants]

Thanks Crabby thats aweful nice of you to say. Yeah I am starting to think that you need a special HDD???? I thought a 500gb SATAII was sufficiant. My god I hate reading, there lies my dilemma lolz. Peace crab man