Atapi - Event ID:11 - The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0.

I believe I have found an answer.  I am using a Seagate SATA drive of Windows 7.   After dealing with this issue for a week now and much Googling, I decided to check the SATA cables.  Sure enough, the hard drive cable was a little loose and wasn't fitting very well.  The DVD cable, on the other hand, was very snug.  I believe I may have knocked the loose fitting cable out a little while shuffling the case around to plug in some extra peripherals. I swapped the cables and haven't had a problem since.  I've been checking my event log every day and it remains free of Device\Ide errors.  Now if I start getting DVD drive problems, then I'll have to completely replace the cable.

Hope this helps.

• cyberfiche

I believe I have found an answer.  I am using a Seagate SATA drive of Windows 7.   After dealing with this issue for a week now and much Googling, I decided to check the SATA cables.  Sure enough, the hard drive cable was a little loose and wasn't fitting very well.  The DVD cable, on the other hand, was very snug.  I believe I may have knocked the loose fitting cable out a little while shuffling the case around to plug in some extra peripherals. I swapped the cables and haven't had a problem since.  I've been checking my event log every day and it remains free of Device\Ide errors.  Now if I start getting DVD drive problems, then I'll have to completely replace the cable.

Hope this helps.

• cyberfiche

Thanks, this could certainly be the answer if you have a computer tower/  In my case, I have been dealing with laptops.  But anyways, it seems mine was related to a failing hard drive.  I pulled the old one out and replaced i and I not getting the error messages anymore.  We'll see if that continues.  It has only been about two weeks..

I am getting tons of these errors, although I can't say I see any issues.  I would like to resolve it, however.  If it's a bad controller, I would like to exchange my motherboard while under warranty.  I switched all cables and now I get the issue on a different port.  The problem is I can't figure out what drive it is refering to!  None of the drive properties have this as the hardware ID:

Can anyone help me determine where to lok this up?

Hi all.  I think I might have solved this.  First, let me list my hardware (mine is no more than 4 months old, except the disks)

• Intel DG41TY board
• Quad core duo 2.7GHz CPU
• 4 GB RAM
• 4 hard disks: 250GB SATA, 1TB SATA, 160GB SATA & 60GB IDE
• 1 IDE CD ROM
• W7 Ultimate, freshly installed on a newly created partition on the 250GB disk when I bought the board & cpu.

The 250GB disk is about 2 yrs old, the 1TB is about 6 months old, the 160GB about 3 yrs old and the 60GB perhaps is 5+ yrs old.

I have been dealing with the "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePortX" error almost inmediately after installing W7, mine on IdePort2, as soon as windows started.  Today I got fed up, so I performed the following:

• Disconnected for good the 60GB IDE disk (rather old, perhaps I'll try to reconnect it in the future)
• Changed the IDE cable for the CD ROM.  I had the 80 wire type and now I am using a 40 wire type.
• My board has 4 SATA ports and as I was able to inferr they work in pairs, so I left the 1 TB drive completely alone on the 2nd SATA bank.
• Separated the disks & CD ROM at least 1 inch apart from each other, physically within the case.

VOILA!!!

Now no more error messages or momentary freeze-ups!!!  I had some other error of VOLMGR dumping (something like that) and even this one is gone.

I don't know if got it fixed for good or not, but my money is on I did.  I don't know either if only 1 or 2 or 3 or all 4 things helped, but I hope any of the above might help you all.  I will post again if anything happens.

Good luck!