disk corruption at shutdown

[John Thewlis]

XP seems to allow shutdown before data is fully flushed
to disk causing disk corruptions at next power up.

Am using XP on RAID controller with 2 mirrored disks,
WD600JB with 8MB cache.

Gigabyte GA-SINXP1394 M/B, PIV 2.66 GHz, 512MB RAM
(Integrated ITE GigaRAID controller)

Does anybody Pleeeeeeeease have any registry or other
tips/fixes to resolve this?

John

[Joseph Conway \(MSFT\)]

Are those disk hardware mirrored or are you using dynamic drives that are
mirrored?

"John Thewlis" > wrote in message
...
> XP seems to allow shutdown before data is fully flushed
> to disk causing disk corruptions at next power up.
>
> Am using XP on RAID controller with 2 mirrored disks,
> WD600JB with 8MB cache.
>
> Gigabyte GA-SINXP1394 M/B, PIV 2.66 GHz, 512MB RAM
> (Integrated ITE GigaRAID controller)
>
> Does anybody Pleeeeeeeease have any registry or other
> tips/fixes to resolve this?
>
> John
>

[Kevin M]

"John Thewlis" > wrote in message
...
| XP seems to allow shutdown before data is fully flushed
| to disk causing disk corruptions at next power up.
| Am using XP on RAID controller with 2 mirrored disks,
| WD600JB with 8MB cache.
| Gigabyte GA-SINXP1394 M/B, PIV 2.66 GHz, 512MB RAM
| (Integrated ITE GigaRAID controller)
| Does anybody Pleeeeeeeease have any registry or other
| tips/fixes to resolve this?


Turn off Write-Caching on all drives.

Kev

[John Thewlis]

RAID controller is mirroring the entire disk. Pretty sure
it's the GigaByte/ITE RAID driver (Non WHQL) that allows
the shutdown prematurely. Was looking for a possible
registry entry that can delay PowerDown at the end of
shutdown. Somebody suggested disabling the write behind
cache, which I could use as a last resort.

John Thewlis



>-----Original Message-----
>Are those disk hardware mirrored or are you using
dynamic drives that are
>mirrored?
>
>"John Thewlis" > wrote in message
...
>> XP seems to allow shutdown before data is fully flushed
>> to disk causing disk corruptions at next power up.
>>
>> Am using XP on RAID controller with 2 mirrored disks,
>> WD600JB with 8MB cache.
>>
>> Gigabyte GA-SINXP1394 M/B, PIV 2.66 GHz, 512MB RAM
>> (Integrated ITE GigaRAID controller)
>>
>> Does anybody Pleeeeeeeease have any registry or other
>> tips/fixes to resolve this?
>>
>> John
>>
>
>
>.
>

[John Thewlis]

Yes, that does work.

Thanks very much for your help. If I can't find another
workaround I will do that.

Many thanks again
John Thewlis