Oh, and to add, I had just received my DiamondMax 10 drives and already there was updated firmware for them. So if your are more than 2-3 weeks old, the firmware has been has been updated already.
I was having the same issues with my DiamondMax 9 hard drives. I called Maxtor, they sent me 2 bios updates for the DiamondMax 9 and 1 for my new Diamond Max 10s.
I would call them, then need some codes off the drives to make sure they send you the right firmware.
Call them, its worth it...
Flashing the DM 9s worked. They have been running in RAID 0 for 12 hours so far with no lockups or disappearing acts.
I'd call Maxtor and see if they'll send you the firmware for your drive.
Soltice, looks like the DiamondMax 10s are working great.
I called Maxtor back anyway, though, and they sent me flash programs for my DiamondMax 9s! Can't belive it was that easy....
I'm flashing my HDs now, and will try them along side my new DM 10s and see if they are stable...
Its going great! No issues. I have my machine running perfect. The test is if it will last over night and all day tomorrow without freezing. looks very good, though. I have NCQ enabled and everything seems fine.
Everytime I booted it recognized both drives it has not froze since putting...
Really, I believe it is a chipset issue, not a driver issue. If it was a driver issue, my hard drives would show up every time at the bios screen, not intermitently.
Probably something to do with wierd latencies or something. The DiamondMax 9 is a "Bridged" SATA drive. Meaning it was...
Last week I emailed Maxtor about firmware upgrades for the drives. I got a reply saying I should call in to their support desk. I did but after 30 min of waiting I hung up.
I not overclocking or doing anything that is different from known stable settings. I had removed my jumper from both drives also. I do remeber I bought these 2 DiamondMax 9s as soon as they were released so I probably have the first revision firmware.
I'm just going to keep throwing $$$ at...
FYI:
I have given up on the DiamondMax 9s. They drop or are not even found with all bios revisions with TWO different motherboards.
I ordered 2 250 DiamondMax 10s. We'll see if this resolves the problem.
I'm guessing those with no issues are not running the NVidia controller in a RAID...
1005.003 does something different. Even from 1005.001
When my board at first can not find the RAID array drives, it seems to try to restart teh drives, and then always can find them and boot.
I'm having an issue in windows so I'm trying another format and reload of Win XP.
It seems...
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