Netware Configration file transfer cache to DOS error: 0x5

[Marcel_Cox]

lcpsmark wrote:

>Getting that error along with "Error writing FAT table on volume SYS"
>and "Error reading both copies of the directory".

The message seems to indicate that you have a SYS volume in TFS (instead
of NSS) and that the problem occured on the SYS volume, not on the DOS
partition. The tool to repair a tradtional NetWare volume is VREPAIR.NLM,
though generally NetWare runs the that tool itself is there is a need to
repair a volume at volume mount time.
On a NetWare 6.5 server, by default, the DOS partition is also handled by
NetWare once the server is loaded. The module FATFS.NLM is repsonible for
this. Once again, when FATFS.NLM recognizes an unclean server shutdown, it
automatically performs a chkdsk on the DOS partition at server startup.

Now to come back to your actual problem, it sounds more like you still
have an hardware issue and at some point in time, your server looses the
ability to access the disk. The errors you get do in fact not seem to
point to disk corruption, but rather to not being able to write to and
read from the disk at all. What you should check is if there are earlier
error messages before those you posted.
When you say you replace the RAID controller, did you replace it by
exactly the same type and version? MAybe you have a newer revision that
doesn't work correctly with the old driver you might be using.
Finally, when replacing the raid controller, did you let your new raid
controller verify your whole array to make sure there are no inconsistency
at raid level?


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