I've got a Dell PowerVault RAID 5 enclosure that had a hard drive conk out over the weekend.
No biggie, I figured-there are multiple hotspares available. The system grabbed one and rebuilt the array, but fussed that there was a consistency problem. I ran a second, manual consistency check on Monday, though, and it came up clean. Peachy. But Monday night, my backup of the PV failed; Symantec reported that four files were inaccessible. Today I tried to access those four files, and sure enough I can't do anything with them. Can't delete them. Can't copy them. Can't rename them. Nothing. I get "Error 0x80070079: The semaphore timeout period has expired." I ran chkdsk in read-only mode, and got this: "The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is PowerVault. WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)... File record segment 575200 is corrupt.0 file records processed) 2953600 file records processed. File verification completed. 832 large file records processed. Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode." So, what gives? The array reports everything is fine. But obviously, something is funky. I can restore the four corrupt files from a backup-that's no problem. But not if I can't first delete the bad versions. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
