"Delayed Write Failed" Error Message When You Manage Files in Windows XP
I am looking for someone (MICROSOFT?) to correct this issue.
Here is the information that I have available to demonstrate that this problem
mainly appears to be related to Windows XP and Large Hard Drives.
There is so much different affected hardware (on XP) that it is difficult to find a real
lowest common denominator. So far I have not found anyone claiming to have this issue
on Windows 2000. I'm not saying that someone doesn't have the issue, I just have not found
a link on the Web saying so. That does show that at least XP is one common denominator.
There appear to be more people with a ATI cards complaining of this issue then there are with
other video cards. That would tend to indicate that ATI video cards "may" be at least partially
another common denominator. Maxtor and Western Digital hard drives appear to be mentioned more
then any others but I would guess that this issue effects all new large EIDE/ATA drives that
require 48Bit addressing to use.
I am unable to find the KB on Maxtor's site but I've included the URLs from Western Digital
that at least acknowledge the issue.
So far though it appears that NO ONE (Promise, Western Digital, Maxtor, Microsoft, etc) has done much
about it. The KB articles suggest a few things, but most of the suggestions are futile for
everyone. So far I have not found anything that CONCLUSIVELY fixes the problem for EVERYONE involved.
I have not modified the Program memory settings in the Advanced tab, they are as set by the XP installation.
On my system I get event viwer errors and system freezes.
Disk Management says the WD1200 is Healthy (but at risk)
There are physical clunking sounds at random times from the Hard Drive/s
When system was running Windows 2000 and only WD1200 and WD800 there was no such
issue with Delayed Write Failed
If I unplug the new WD250 and plug in my old WD800 with Windows 2000 and use the built-in IDE ports
on the Motherboard there are no Delay Write issues and the occassional clunking sound goes away too.
Once I plug the new WD2500 back into the Promise Ultra100 TX2 the issue comes back.
Running Windows XP Pro w/SP1
ASUS CUSL2 Motherboard
Intel Chipset 815e
BIOS 1009
Intel PIII 933
Micron CAS 2 SDRAM 133MHz 512MB
ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 8500DV with Catalyst 3.9 Drivers
WinXP Promise Ultra100 TX2
Western Digital 2500JB-32FUA0 8MB Cache (Primary on Ultra100)
Western Digital 1200JB-00CRA1 8MB Cache (Slave on Ultra 100)
Using brand new 80Wire/40Pin Cable
WD2500 is Basic Disk
WD1200 is Dynamic
WD2500 Bus 0, ID 0, LUN 0
WD1200 Bus 0, ID 1, LUN 0
Sony DRU500A DVD/Writer
Plextor 40/12/40A CD/Writer
"Delayed Write Failed" Error Message When You Manage Files in Windows XP
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