SATA RAID and 1210sa bsod

[Tom1223]

I have been having issues with my system hanging and giving me BSODs for a while now. So I completely wiped it and reconfigured, here is what I have. A Dell precision 670 with an adaptec embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Controller with 2 ST312082 7AS drives in a RAID 0 configuration. I also installed a Adaptec 1210SA card which I have a ST3500641AS drive connected. The driver I was using for this was the Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA driver Microsoft certified for Windows XP Ver 5.0.2195.1620. I have been getting the below errors in event viewer one indicating a timeout and the other BSOD error. I removed the card and now my system is stable. My system seemed stable after the rebuild for a couple of days then I setup a share on the drive for a network backup which backed up about 70GB of data and after this ran the first night a came in to find the blue screen listed below, from this point the system would not run more than 20 minutes without reproducing the BSOD. As I mentioned once the card was removed the system stabilized.
So any ideas where I should go now? Could it be a defective card? or a driver issue, or a bad drive? Is it possible that I have a conflict between the embedded controller and the 1210sa. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Tom



Event Type: Error
Event Source: aar1210
Event Category: None
Event ID: 9
Date: 12/29/2006
Time: 10:13:06 PM
User: N/A
Computer: TOMSPC
Description:
The device, \Device\Scsi\aar12101, did not respond within the timeout period.

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Data:
0000: 00 00 10 00 01 00 68 00 ......h.
0008: 00 00 00 00 09 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 01 01 00 50 00 00 00 00 ...P....
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 ........


Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 12/29/2006
Time: 10:04:33 PM
User: N/A
Computer: TOMSPC
Description:
Error code 100000d1, parameter1 000002b0, parameter2 00000005, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 ba69f365.

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Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 64 100000d
0020: 31 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d 1 Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 30 eters 00
0030: 30 30 30 32 62 30 2c 20 0002b0,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 35 00000005
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 30 2c 20 62 61 36 39 00, ba69
0050: 66 33 36 35 f365

 

[Nodsu]

Try updating the card firmware and also download the latest drivers from Adaptec.

 

[Tom1223]

Thanks, I did update the firmware and was running a driver I just downloaded from adaptec, it was the only one listed as XP certified. I will try the others and see what happens.

 

[tipstir]

Might not work with your present system. This does happen even with the DELLS, the are not standard like when you build your own system froms scratch. Still as you have notice when you remove the card all is well and stable when you install it back the system doesn't function, that's your first sign. You could take the adapter back and replace it with another to see if it works or not? If you still have ths same problem after installing drivers firmware updates, and have applied all patches and updates to your Windows version of OS Client or Server?

As you know we can only advise you what to do? It's up to you in the long run to decided if you want to do what we all advise you to or not.. If I was you I would try a different method or try the adapter into a different PC other than a DELL if you have any clones PC around to test...

 

[raybay]

Heat or power issue?

 

[Nodsu]

Check wor any IRQ conflicts or sharing? Maybe try the SATA card in some other slot?