EDIT: i guess that hack was for win 7 only, so maybe there is no solution hereĪlso to reiterate. **i may also check into tweaking the AHCI Link Power Management settings before jumping the gun on a dead drive as well, which i believe needs a reg fix before it shows up. I suppose they could both be 'bad', but only wish i could verify this before sending back. one was just RMA'd (now its a re-certified seagate 1TB), the other a WD 3TB drive (original still with warranty). i know i have 2 drives affected right now. So i guess my question i ask at this point, is could storahci errors (port disconnects) be simply from a drive gone bad. HDtune does not report the drive to be 'bad' at least by smart reporting standards. and also on a fresh install or whether i have the RST drivers running or not. I still get the storahci disconnects whether its on port A B or C and whether its a new cable or not. at first i thought it was my 3rd party addon pcie controller card or the motherboard ports. i guess that might be last ditch before i rma the board, however, given things were fine for so long and not so fine now (even after rma'ing hdd's), i wager its the board.Īt this point i've ruled out cables and ports. I havent updated the bios since last december. i had things at 2400mhz ram and 4.4 ghz on the hexcore, but i've since dropped the ram down to 1600 and 3.4ghz (no change in the event viewer, this was done early yesterday, so i know this wasnt the culprit) so far no port disconnects, but i'm fairly certain ill see those again.Īgain, i'm nearly 100% sure, when i had this drive on the esata port, i had no ultra dma errors (which i think is weird? given that smart errors should indicate a problem with the drive or cable, or maybe not so weird).Īt first i thought my issues were OC related. the drive is still reporting c7 ultra dma crc error count (warning) in hdtune for smart errors. then suddenly 11pm at night every few mins a port reset.Īt this point i've swapped the cable, however. had an error just as i did (port reset, 129) again. I'm assuming it was RST, as i installed that latest driver. i have it set to legacy/uefi boot in the options and also set to 'other os' under type of OS (at one point i had a mix of win 7 dual boot with 8, no longer though). I couldnt find a setting in the bios to specify RST or RSTe.

Storahci error 129