I woke up this morning and discovered that my new WD3200SD plugged into an Adaptec 1210SA (JBOD configuration) is "Missing"/"Failed" in Disk Management in Windows 2003 with SP1.

Event log reveals this:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: LDM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 2
Date:  10/3/2005
Time:  10:21:38 AM
User:  N/A
Description:
INTERNAL Error - The specified plex contains disabled subdisks  (C1000078).

What the heck?  The drive shows fine at system startup.  Its picked up by the controller as "Healthy" and lists the whole HDD size.

Updating to build 45 of the driver causes the server to restart at Windows bootup.  I moved the drives attached to the 1210SA to another computer and update it to build 45.  Access to affected drive restored.

I'm not surprised that it works on a newer driver version; I'm annoyed that build 45 won't install on this file server.  Its a clean format with NOTHING installed except SP1 and the latest hotfixes!

Oh well =).