Seems like every time I reboot, my software RAID1 array is re-syncing. Its also causing me some BSOD’s in the process. I’m fairly certain it’s the array, because it normally happens when I’m doing something that is disk i/o intensive.
For instance, the last time it BSOD’d, I was watching an AVI file off of the array, while at the same time ripping a CD to it. It was shortly after that reboot that I discovered the re-syncing error.
I hadn’t noticed any affects before, because I’m normally using it fairly lightly, as far as those drives are concerned. If I’m using them, it’s just to watch a movie off of them, or play some music. But when I saw that the array was re-syncing after my BSOD, I remembered that I had seen it doing it before, as well.
Only thing I have found in the Event log within the time period that I have been having these issues, (besides “previous shutdown was unexpected,”) is something about “VDS Basic Provider, Unexpected failure. Error code: 490@01010004” in the “Disc” section of the log. Googling it led me to multiple pages with people saying, “Spoke to Microsoft, they said to ignore it.” Not exactly my idea of support….I’d like to know what it is, and whats causing it.
My operating system is on a separate drive, on a separate controller. Only thing on this controller is the two SATA drives in a RAID1 array. Both are Seagate Barracuda’s; one a 1.5Tb, the other a 1Tb. I had a drive failure and got a good deal on the 1.5Tb, so I figured I would swap out the other 1Tb eventually and add some space. For now, though, the 1.5Tb is partitioned down to 1Tb to match the other.
Running Windows 7 Pro x86…as far as major software installed on my machine, I’ve got SQL Server 2005, Office 2010…..couple of games from Steam, and that’s about it.
Anybody had issues with software RAID1 arrays constantly re-syncing, or causing BSOD’s? Just looking for some advice here, and thanks in advance for any help.