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    'No Operating System' with my RIAD 0

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by gilf, Aug 10, 2011.

  1. gilf

    gilf Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey,


    I run into strange problems with the SSDs RAID 0. (2x128GB SSD)

    My notebook just freezed with black screen (maybe after i woke it up from sleep), then when I hard restarted it, I got a 'No Operating System' message, another restart manages to start windows regulary.
    Then I experienced a message saying that windows can't accress some chrome's folder inside AppData. After restating again it performed chdisk and I think it deleted some unaccessible entries..

    Also one time I remember Intel's RST saying that one SSD was not working. It allowed me to press "enable" in order to make it work....


    Important note: I enabled write chaching on my device and also turned off windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device. Maybe that what caused the 'No Operating System' message? Because of my hard reboot?


    Any idea?
    I'm thinking of breaking the raid and reinstalling windows on one SSD and having the second one as another drive.

    Thanks,
    Gil.
     
    gilf, Aug 10, 2011
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  2. travfar

    travfar Notebook Evangelist

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    Dude, I get that RST message often. Not like everyday but about once a week. It then cycles a few seconds later and tells me everything is fine. I've learned to ignore it.

    If a reboot "fixed" the no OS message, why worry about it. It just looked like you crashed and thus it wasn't able to sync the buffers.

    Overall, what you describe is pretty much the way my Z has always been.
     
    travfar, Aug 10, 2011
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  3. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Do you mean a message like "Disk on port 1: Detected" or a message that says that one SSD is not working?
     
    namaiki, Aug 10, 2011
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    gilf Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm attaching an example of the problem described within the RST.

    Ignoring is easy, but I'd like to know the reason.
    It happened to me right now (thus the attachment) after I took the notebook from one place to another. Maybe it's related to movement? connections problem?

    I just found the 'Verify' option and running it.
     

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    gilf, Aug 12, 2011
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  5. Qwaarjet

    Qwaarjet Notebook Deity

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    I have this happening to my C300 Raid 0 SSD's on my desktop. It's my steam drive, my OS is on a X25-E and the computer works fine, but Steam crashes and fails to load obviously. If i reboot, the drive stays in a failed state. If i power down completely and start it up again, everything works just fine until it fails again (usually after a long sleep cycle).

    It's always the same SSD missing, so i'm assuming it's failing although i've never had a problem with it for months, but only recently started using them in RAID0. I broke the raid setup and have them now as separate drives and will see if the drive fails again on me this weekend, if so, going to RMA it.

    My C300 r0 setup in my Z1 hasn't given me any issues yet, thankfully, as the warranty is void on those drives :D
     
    Qwaarjet, Aug 12, 2011
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