[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/04/2008 09:14:33 AM: > Not a good sign... > > This machine has a JBOD rather than a RAID. The machine has been > displaying a gray screen for the file system check for the drive in > question showing "CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)..." for > about an hour now.
Don't panic! CHKDSK can take a long time on large volumes with large amounts of files/directories. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/storage/getstorfacts.mspx I was researching this when trying to decide how large to make our volumes on our new iSCSI SAN. Just because you can create a 2 terabyte volume, is that really a good thing? :-) Oh yeah, if you use software iSCSI initiators, your volumes will never autocheck - the iSCSI initiator service isn't loaded yet when the autocheck portion of the OS boot happens - you have to manually keep an eye on your NTFS volumes with chkntfs. Score another positive for using hardware iSCSI initiator cards, since they do mount the volumes during the early parts of the boot process. Hmm, I just noticed that's an outdated technote, MS now supports software boot from an iSCSI SAN. But the chkdsk stuff is still the same :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
