ABIT fixed, but all new data integrity problems???

[stevenscott]

Dude,
Why not run your drive on IDE1, and run additional drives on other IDE's. I know you want to use the UDMA66 but use it on your storage drives. I used my Maxtor on both options, and also read many other people's experiences. I really think that your main HD/boot drive should stay on IDE1 and if you have more HD's run them on IDE3 and IDE4 etc. Then you wil not have to deal with the high point 1.21 drivers on your main drive. IMHO.
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[The PIT]

Do the errors crop up on just one drive?
Sometimes different hard drives don't like working together. First of all check that you've got the master and slave settings set properly. If you have then you can try switching the channels and see if the errors still occur. If they stop brilliant if they continue the next step is using one drive at a time. Do this until the error re occurs you may have change the settings of the drive to cable select. By the way this includes swapping your dvd around as well.
It sounds like scandisk is restoring from the backup file allocation.
Another thing is to check the hard disk settings in the Bios and see if they agree with what is displayed on the hard disk. It's unlikely but it's possible that Bios is incorrectly detecting the hard disks.

[RAB]

If you are constantly getting crosslinked files, you have big problems. I strongly suggest you back up what you need on one of the slower drives. Then put your Maxtor on the first IDE channel as Primary. Reformat the Maxtor and reinstall Windows from scratch. I know this is drastic, but once constant crosslinked files start showing up, its often the easiest solution and will end up being less time consuming than constantly chasing down corrupted files. Plus, you will be amazed at how well things run on a freshly formated, clean installation of Windows.

RAB

[This message has been edited by RAB (edited 06 February 2000).]

[Kruzin]

Thread relocated to the General Hardware forum...

[CMB]

ABIT fixed, but all new data integrity problems???

hey all.. my harware seems to be fine now..
i can run supreme snowboarding, lemans 24hrs TR4, BUT when i try to run UT it gets a general protection fault and doesnt get further then the intro....

I also have corrupted files sporadicly and when i run scandisk i am getting
-found 2 copys of fat3s table allocation-
i delete to fix it.. but it doesnt help
it just finds same error next time i run it.
it also constantly finds different files and folders crossedlinked or occupying the same space and has to delete both files in questions to fix it?

so if my theroy holds.. demos would run ok because they are smallish files. UT is a couple of hundred meg so that would make it more vulnerable to data corruption. Correct?

So am i right in thinking i have a data integrity problem? and if so.. how do i fix it?

I have a MAxtor 20gig UDMA/66 on IDE CH3
and BIGFOOT 12gig and IBM DTTA 16gig on the IDE CH4 as master and slave respectively

and i have my 2xDVD drive on IDE CH1 Master.

oh and i have an ABIT Be6 and all that bollocks... (described it to many times to care any more :O)
please refer to thread
"MAX UNABLE TO PLAY 3D GAMES" to find out
Thanks..
hope you all can help me again..

Would it make a differnce if I connected my Hard Drives on IDE 1+2 .. or how about just the Maxtor on IDE 3??