Western Digital Incompatibility

[Player0]

Hi, I heard someone mention something about WD incompatablility. I have a Windows 2000 machine with two Western Digital ATA100 7200rpm 20g drives in RAID0 off the HPT372. Its a KR7A-133R with the latest BIOS with HPT Raid v 2.31 and the proper drivers. Using 4-in-1 v4.38.

The machine has random errors, which always seem to occur early in the morning when the machine is first booted. It runs 100% okay the rest of the day, runs quake and prime95 forever. I have it on pretty conservative settings. I thought at first it was a software issue (Outlook bug or something), but now I wonder if its some HD write caching issue.

Does anyone know of any incompatibilities between HPT, WD, Win2k and KR7a?

How can I disable write caching all together? The option seems greyed out on the HPT device. Ive used this same configuration in bunches of other machines without these same problems, so Im not sure what the deal is, but its annoying. In fact, I use KR7A-133r with all the same drivers at home, with the 100g 8m cache WD units, except I use XP.

Thoughts?

[lechumbl]

Hi Player0,

I remember a long time ago about WD not being very compatible with other brands of H/D's, like Seagate, Fujitsu, etc, but they seemed to be compatible with each other.

Perhaps the cache issue may not be the problem.

Take care....

[Farabomb]

I had 2x ata-100 maxtors and my 40g WD with no probs. I used to use the 40g as portable storage so it was in a lot of boxes with different H.W. and I didn't run into any probs. Right now it's living with my 120g WD in my main box and everything nice and happy. It was in my ABIT that had a highpoint controler. Hope it helps.