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Offline girick

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Re: banging my head against the wall trying to create a new 120 GB DMS
« Reply #40 on: January 13, 2008, 07:08:09 pm »
I have a USB2.0 cradle.  When I plugged my cradle into my work laptop (an HP 6910P) it worked beautifully to create a new DMS drive on my 160GB Hitachi (model HTS541616J9AT00 160GB).  When reviewing the logs on my PC with the SATA raid I would see:

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Starting WMI Cycle [waiting for WMI to mount partitions and assign drive letters]...
Checking mounted drives for disk...
[Cycle 1] Re-checking mounted drives for disk...
....
Re-checking WMI device list....
[Cycle 60] Re-checking mounted drives for disk...
Re-checking WMI device list....
Checking available disk space...
...which is: 159,974,776,320 Bytes.
LBA Check reports: 159 GB
LBA kernel required: True

Preparing format parameters....
PHTSYS Arguments: -n PHTSYS -f 2 -F 32  0
PHTDTA Arguments: -n PHTDTA -f 2 -F 32 F: 312450735
Formatting PHTSYS....
completed: Failed!.
Formatting PHTDTA....

The 60 cycles of rechecking mounted drives for disk tends to tell me that the PhatHack tool is having a tough time determining which drive is the DMS.  As soon as I connected the cradle to my HP laptop it only when through 1 cycle and completed the creation of the DMS very quickly.

I don't know if it matters but my MB is an eVGA nForce 650i Ultra with 4 SATA ports that can be configured as RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and 5.
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Re: banging my head against the wall trying to create a new 120 GB DMS
« Reply #41 on: January 13, 2008, 07:24:16 pm »
One useful thing to do would be:

- Delete startup_sequence.txt from My Documents
- Start the DMS Hack Tools with the 'faulty' drive active in the cradle
- Close the tools

...and then paste the contents of startup_sequence.txt


There might be a clue there as to what's going on, as that is the initial WMI snapshot that occurs to determine the devices to show in the dropdown.  Not sure if it's posted in the WMI cycle part of the logs or not.  (Don't have anything to hand to check)

IIRC, although I'll need to check it out tomorrow, the DISK ID is stored as per the selection in the dropdown and so any WMI query is performed against that specific disk ID.  The WMI cycle is actually checking for the existence of more than 1 partition.  I can't remember if it's explicitly 2, or more than two partitions.  I have seen instances before the tools were complete of DMS drives ending up with 3 partitions and perhaps I haven't coped with something like this and perhaps your WMI snapshot is reporting 3 partitions for the DMS.

Again, I can't really clarify this until I see the log.
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Re: banging my head against the wall trying to create a new 120 GB DMS
« Reply #42 on: January 13, 2008, 07:57:56 pm »
VorTechS,

I won't be able to get you the startup_sequence.txt after deleting it for the WD drive since I've already returned it for the Hitachi, if you want I can email you both startup_sequence.txt files, but I was able to copy it from my system from when I tried using the DMS Hack Tools on it so here is the Win32_drive list for the WD 120GB:
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Win32_Drive List
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      Starting device evaluation:
      Determining device signature...
      done.
   Disk ID: 1
   Disk Name: NVIDIA  JBOD      74.53G
   PnP Device: SCSI\DISK____NVIDIA__JBOD______74.53G\2
   Disk Unique ID (not serial!): D7E9D7E9

      Partitions List
      ---------------
      No logical disks available for device partitions.
      Device evaluation complete.
      Next device evaluation:
      Determining device signature...
      done.
   Disk ID: 0
   Disk Name: NVIDIA  MIRROR    74.53G
   PnP Device: SCSI\DISK____NVIDIA__MIRROR____74.53G\1
   Disk Unique ID (not serial!): BC97BC97

      Partitions List
      ---------------
      Partition: Disk #0, Partition #0
      Drive: C:
      Serial #: 18AF5A18




      Partitions List
      ---------------
      Partition: Disk #0, Partition #1
      Drive: D:
      Serial #: D457CA19



      Device evaluation complete.
      Skipping device with no signature.
      Skipping device with no signature.
      Skipping device with no signature.
      Skipping device with no signature.
      Next device evaluation:
      Determining device signature...
      done.
   Disk ID: 6
   Disk Name: USB-HS WDC WD1200BEVE-0 USB Device
   PnP Device: USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_USB-HS&PROD_WDC_WD1200BEVE-0&REV_0.01\6&3A61BD89&0
   Disk Unique ID (not serial!): 0
      No disk partitions available for device.
      Device evaluation complete.
   Succeeded....enumerating devices....
      Device 1
         Checking device name for USB context...
         Not a USB labelled device.
      Device 2
         Checking device name for USB context...
         Not a USB labelled device.
      Device 3
         Checking device name for USB context...
         Not a USB labelled device.
      Device 4
         Checking device name for USB context...
         Evaluates to true!
         Does not have drive letter!
   Device enumeration complete.
Starting Device Listing....
   Getting Device Snapshot....

and here is the Win32_drive list for my 160GB Hitachi drive I'm currently using
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Win32_Drive List
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      Starting device evaluation:
      Determining device signature...
      done.
   Disk ID: 1
   Disk Name: NVIDIA  JBOD      74.53G
   PnP Device: SCSI\DISK____NVIDIA__JBOD______74.53G\2
   Disk Unique ID (not serial!): D7E9D7E9

      Partitions List
      ---------------
      No logical disks available for device partitions.
      Device evaluation complete.
      Next device evaluation:
      Determining device signature...
      done.
   Disk ID: 0
   Disk Name: NVIDIA  MIRROR    74.53G
   PnP Device: SCSI\DISK____NVIDIA__MIRROR____74.53G\1
   Disk Unique ID (not serial!): BC97BC97

      Partitions List
      ---------------
      Partition: Disk #0, Partition #0
      Drive: C:
      Serial #: 18AF5A18




      Partitions List
      ---------------
      Partition: Disk #0, Partition #1
      Drive: D:
      Serial #: D457CA19



      Device evaluation complete.
      Skipping device with no signature.
      Skipping device with no signature.
      Skipping device with no signature.
      Skipping device with no signature.
      Next device evaluation:
      Determining device signature...
      done.
   Disk ID: 6
   Disk Name: USB-HS Hitachi HTS54161 USB Device
   PnP Device: USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_USB-HS&PROD_HITACHI_HTS54161&REV_0.01\6&36F40571&0
   Disk Unique ID (not serial!): 0
      No disk partitions available for device.
      Device evaluation complete.
   Succeeded....enumerating devices....
      Device 1
         Checking device name for USB context...
         Not a USB labelled device.
      Device 2
         Checking device name for USB context...
         Not a USB labelled device.
      Device 3
         Checking device name for USB context...
         Not a USB labelled device.
      Device 4
         Checking device name for USB context...
         Evaluates to true!
         Does not have drive letter!
   Device enumeration complete.
Starting Device Listing....
   Getting Device Snapshot....
Both of the above Win32_drive lists were on my eVGA motherboard system.

Below is the one from my laptop with the Hitachi drive
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Win32_Drive List
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      Starting device evaluation:
      Determining device signature...
      done.
   Disk ID: 0
   Disk Name: FUJITSU MHY2080BH
   PnP Device: IDE\DISKFUJITSU_MHY2080BH_______________________890B____\4&440D8FF&0&0.0.0
   Disk Unique ID (not serial!): 8E608E60

      Partitions List
      ---------------
      Partition: Disk #0, Partition #0
      Drive: C:
      Serial #: 2CC0BF8E



      Device evaluation complete.
      Next device evaluation:
      Determining device signature...
      done.
   Disk ID: 1
   Disk Name: USB-HS Hitachi HTS54161 USB Device
   PnP Device: USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_USB-HS&PROD_HITACHI_HTS54161&REV_0.01\6&1BC8F8E4&0
   Disk Unique ID (not serial!): 1AE63130

      Partitions List
      ---------------
      Partition: Disk #1, Partition #0
      Drive: F:
      Serial #: 478830CA




      Partitions List
      ---------------
      Partition: Disk #1, Partition #1
      Drive: G:
      Serial #: 478830CC



      Device evaluation complete.
   Succeeded....enumerating devices....
      Device 1
         Checking device name for USB context...
         Not a USB labelled device.
      Device 2
         Checking device name for USB context...
         Evaluates to true!
         Also has drive letter!
      Device 3
         Checking device name for USB context...
         Evaluates to true!
         Also has drive letter!
   Device enumeration complete.

Hope this helps.  As I said above, I can email you both of the startup_sequence.txt files and the PhatHack_NewDMS_Log.txt files if that would be helpful.

Greg
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Re: banging my head against the wall trying to create a new 120 GB DMS
« Reply #43 on: January 13, 2008, 09:01:20 pm »
The New_DMS log might be useful, but as I see it from what you've pasted there are no partitions being reported by WMI, or an error has occured that I'm trapping and assuming it's to do with a non-DMs device.

What O/S are you running on the RAID machine?
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Re: banging my head against the wall trying to create a new 120 GB DMS
« Reply #44 on: January 14, 2008, 02:30:24 am »
I'm running WinXP SP2 on both my PC with the SATA Raid and on my HP 6910p laptop.
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Re: banging my head against the wall trying to create a new 120 GB DMS
« Reply #45 on: January 14, 2008, 08:21:49 pm »
Try accessting the drive (copying to it or something) with all versions of PMM closed.   I thought it was fixed but some versions of PMM had issues with 160GB drives.  See http://forum.phathack.com/index.php/topic,620.0.html