Have you ran chkdsk /r on this disk yet?
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Browse All TopicsI am using an adaptec 3200s SCSI RAID card cnfigured with a hardware based RAID 5 using Windows 2000 SP3 as my Server OS. I keep getting NTDS GENRERAL EVENT ID 1539 ; Unable to disable disk write catch on C. Data might be lost during system faiures. I have set the controller for active write through. I have attempted to turn off the disk write cache in the OS, this doesn't work. Any help would be great to help me turn off the write cache in the OS.
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by: mfuttyPosted on 2002-09-18 at 17:14:38ID: 7290045
We experienced the same issue with Compaq RAID controllers and found out through Compaq and Microsoft that it is a known issue.... to be corrected in the future (I'm not sure if they included any kind of fix for it it in SP3 or not, but it was not corrected in SP2)
As it was explained to me, it is an error in the communications between the RAID controller and the OS. Even when it the error was not physically possible because write-behind caching was disabled on the RAID controller itself and not an option for Windows to change, Windows still reported the error.