How can I tell which disks its complaining about?

[Soul]

The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.



The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk3\DR3 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.




The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk4\DR4 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Signed,
Worried

[ChronoCross]

Take a look at your admin logs. usually when the driver detects that a disk will fail there will be read/write errors in the system logs and that should tell you which drive it is.

[Soul]

Take a look at your admin logs. usually when the driver detects that a disk will fail there will be read/write errors in the system logs and that should tell you which drive it is.

That is from the event system log. What other admin logs are you talking about?

[ChronoCross]

I was talking about control panel/administrative tool/event viewer. Under the system tab. it'll have some type of warning and if you click on it it should tell you waht drive is erroring.

Sadly I know about this from personal Experience......=(

[Soul]

I was talking about control panel/administrative tool/event viewer. Under the system tab. it'll have some type of warning and if you click on it it should tell you waht drive is erroring.

Sadly I know about this from personal Experience......=(


That is the point. I got it from the Event Viewer. That is copied directly from the Event Log entries. It is directly from the System Log.

My problem:

I have 4 sata disks in a sata drive cage. First two are raid-1 together. Next two are standalone disks. I also have 1 scsi drive and 1 ide drive.

I don't know which drives the system log entries are referring. Does anyone know how to determine to which disk "\Device\Harddisk2\DR2" refers.

[mikron15]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;830051

I would think looking a disk manager and seeing how the drives are listed
would be the way to determine which drive. I would expect its listed as
drive2.

[Soul]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;830051

I would think looking a disk manager and seeing how the drives are listed
would be the way to determine which drive. I would expect its listed as
drive2.

Maybe. I found if I went to control panel system devices and right click the drives and go to properties it shows what disk number. So I finally found it and I suspect that Disk Manager might show the same thing. If it starts at disk 0. I don't know if it does or not though.

[Soul]

I thought it was quite odd that I was getting this error on every one of the disks that I have in my sata raid cage. I check out the system to find I never got around to taking care of the drivers correctly for the system so I went and downloaded the driver pack from tyan for the server board and installed it. Alot of the question marks went away in the device manager. One of which was a Raid device. It had a question mark but it was running correctly. It is now correctly identified by its actual name. Hopefully this causes my problems to go away.

So to remind everyone. Always make sure you clear out device manager of any bang symbols or unrecognized devices before you place a system in a production environment. It may very well keep you from bashing your own skull open trying to figure out what might be the problem. :D

[Soul]

OK. This didnt make my problem go away. The drives that are complaining are all sata drives in my sata drive cage that is installed in the system.

They are 4 sata drives and the first two drives are raid 1 together
So they look like 3 drives. I find it highly unlikely that all three drives are failing together and I imagine it is extremely unlikely that the drive cage itself is faulty because I would guess there is very little failable technology located in the sata drive cage (more of a passive device). I guess it is possible the fan has failed and is causing the drives to get too hot. Does anyone know of a good FREE hard drive monitoring tool that I can use to get maybe a better message of what might be going wrong to cause this error to pop?

Thanks,
Scott

[ChronoCross]

well if it's a heating problem then you should contact the helpdesk and have them check. IDK if the dedicateds have mobo's with temp monitors otherwise you'd be able to use intels mobo heat detection tool which monitors fans, cpu temp, main computer temp, etc.

If there is a HDD error then more than likely it is one of the drives not in the raid configuration. if it was one of Raid drives there is a 23% chance that your machine wouldn't even boot, you know windows, one system file is damaged and there is almost no chance it will boot or be recoverable.

[Soul]

well if it's a heating problem then you should contact the helpdesk and have them check. IDK if the dedicateds have mobo's with temp monitors otherwise you'd be able to use intels mobo heat detection tool which monitors fans, cpu temp, main computer temp, etc.

If there is a HDD error then more than likely it is one of the drives not in the raid configuration. if it was one of Raid drives there is a 23% chance that your machine wouldn't even boot, you know windows, one system file is damaged and there is almost no chance it will boot or be recoverable.

This is a colo box not a dedicated. And the raided drive(s) is one of the drives that is throwing this into the event log. I might have them open it up to see if the fan that is built into the sata drive cage is operating properly. To recap I have 4 drives in the sata drive cage. I.E. this:

http://www.innersoul.us/sata.jpg

I have two other drives a scsi and an ide that are not being complained about. The system seems to run fine. Have had zero problems with how it runs. Noticed NO data corruption of any kind. I find it odd that 4 drives would be failing all at the same time. That is the only reason I don't feel too worried.