The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0
Ken Frey
My system has a Pentium 1.6GHz processor. The bus speed is
100. I have this hard drive (Western Digital WDC WD600BB-
00CAA1 60GB) set up to dual boot to NT Server and W2K Pro
(SP2).
In both System Event Viewers I'm getting the following
error messages more and more frequently.
I also installed a second copy of Win2K with no other
programs added (all three are on their own partitions) and
that gets the errors also.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11
Date: 10/20/2002
Time: 12:10:36 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ZEUS
Description:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0
\DR0.
Data:
0000: 04 01 22 00 01 00 72 00 .."...r.
0008: 00 00 00 00 0b 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 3c f7 ab 00 00 00 00 .<÷«....
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 2a 00 00 00 ....*...
0038: 02 8f 00 00 03 08 04 00 . ......
0040: 2a 00 00 55 fb 9e 00 00 *..Uûz..
0048: 80 00 ?.
1) searched the MS Knowledge base with nothing relevant
being found
2) diag'd the hard drive with Western Digital diag tool -
no problems detected
3) reinstalled drivers
4) tried clean W2k install on new partition
6) swapped ribbon cable
7) swapped motherboard - went back to Fry's and they
swapped all my components to new bare bones case with same
model motherboard. (Did not change the hard drive as the
test from Western Digital showed no problem with the
drive.)
Basically I went from software (o/s, drivers) to component
(hdd) to connector (ribbon cable) to motherboard
controller. The system runs fine, which I should be
grateful for, but murphy's law will surely make this
problem manifest itself at a critical time. In the
meantime, I'll just keep digging (and backing up
frequently!)
One of the most frustrating things is not being able to
find a definitive source for these Event Viewer events. In
the Microsoft KB, I put in the Event number, the error
msg, the \device\harddisk0\dr0 portion and nothing even
relevant comes up. Do you know of any definitive sites for
the Event Viewer events?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Ken Frey
