W2008 Stnd X86 And 2.7Tb External Raid5 Drive

[ksdst1]

Hi all,

I am trying to use an external Lacie Biggest Quadra 2.7TB Raid5 drive connected via USB2 to a w2k8 stn server. I initialized the raid5 drive through the unit (assuming this is hardware driven) and with the drive as GPT try to format it through disk manager or diskpart and the format will not complete. I connected the drive to my w7x64 pc and I can format the drive with no problem. I can then connect it to the w2k8 machine and it recognizes the drive. I can create a shared folder and save/delete to it locally or from networked pc's. But at some point after initiating a w7 backup or data transfer from networked pc's, the drive becomes inaccessible w/ w2k8 log events 51, 57 (An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\DR5 during a paging operation.|The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.).

Is there an incompatibility w/ a 32bit w2008 system and GPT or dynamic disk (Raid5) formatting and recognition? Why can't I format the drive in w2k8 but I can with w7x64? Any way I can have this drive work at full capacity with w2k8x32? BTW, Lacie won't touch the issue..."we haven't tested the drive w/ 2k8"

Thanks,

Kevin

 

[ICTCity]

Hi there,

Check this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/233541/en-us and tell me if you can disable the WRITE CACHE.

Most of these kind of problems, can be resolved by disabling the cache. BUT your HD must support this option. In addition, do you have a specific software with advanced feautures provided by Lacie?

Anyway... great answer from Lacie... very professional... in others words "oh really? but you just bought my HD, I have my money and everything is ok" - pathetic -

 

[ksdst1]

tnx for the reply! i'll disable the cache and try the backup again. Lacie has not supplied any support software as far as i can tell from their download section of their web site. yes, not too thrilled with their response.

Hi there,

Check this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/233541/en-us and tell me if you can disable the WRITE CACHE.

Most of these kind of problems, can be resolved by disabling the cache. BUT your HD must support this option. In addition, do you have a specific software with advanced feautures provided by Lacie?

Anyway... great answer from Lacie... very professional... in others words "oh really? but you just bought my HD, I have my money and everything is ok" - pathetic -