One more thing, when the random complete shutdowns started happening, I got the following warning:
(System)
Event ID: 262
Type: Warning
Source: Promise Disk Contoller
Error Description: "Disk1 timeout at device path \card\port1"
Followed by:
Event ID: 260
Type: Information
Source: Promise Disk...
Addendum: The tech said that he doesn't think the issue is a RAID one... only that XP is not recognizing the file system and wants to format the drive.
Tony, the machine is still in the shop. There are 3 disks - the C drive with the operating system, a 500 GB drive for backups, and the RAID 5 array (4 500 GB drives). This was connected to another computer via ethernet. And, no, the data was not backed up and I wasn't warned about data loss...
Last week my computer with a RAID5 system started mysteriously/randomly shutting down. The RAID files were available. Not finding a solution, I took the 'puter back to the shop that built it. He reinstalled the operating system which was getting a disk error... but now is unable to...
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