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I've been getting the following:

Windows - Delayed Write Failure


WTF???? Basically I get bombarded with this every <10sec til I can't use Windows at all (XP btw).
I've deleted the rebuilt the RAID on the 2 Seagate HDDs and reformatted... not sure how it's going to go..

has anyone gotten this before?

Generally not a good sign. Usually means a drive is going or a controller problem.

Check your IDE cables. Unplug them and plug them back in - sometimes they get corroded and doing that will scrape them clean.

You said you're using a RAID array? Make sure you have the latest drivers and BIOS for the controller. I know with Promise controllers the driver version needs to match the BIOS version.

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Did a quick Google search and found a few references that indicate it MIGHT be related to a software issue:

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/2459/

I'd recommend checking the newsgroups on Google as well.

However I'd still be concerned it's a hardware issue. You get this kind of error when a drive is going.

i've been reading up on that all night (thank god i kept my amd box)..
i dunno... the problems just crept up on me.. i didn't update my drivers or bios for the controller as of late..
i did in fact installed a couple of patches and then about a day or 2 later, this cropped up...


i'm hoping for the best though... i destroyed the RAID.. hopefully, this problem goes away when i get home and try the newly formatted partition out ... it'd be a shame to lose a 120GB RAID

Well, I've seen that error twice. One was serious and one was end user stupidity. The first one was because my SCSI drive was actually dieing the second time was because I plugged the SCSI cable in wrong! )*

hmmm rebuilding the array may have fixed it... seems to work so far.. but only time will tell... it may get that way again once i restore all my files back to the array... <keeping my fingers crossed>