19 HOURS Down the Drain

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knip
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19 HOURS Down the Drain

Post by knip » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:55 pm

2 TB raid 5 HP MSA20 SCSI attached.
Ran scan, got all the way to the end and looked like it was doing nothing. Checked perfmon, confirmed no read/write activity for 30 minutes. Tried to stop job, would not stop. Waited longer, still wouldn't stop. Stopped R-Studio (127531) via task manager. Went back in and it didn't keep the scan data.

19 hours down the drain.

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Re: 19 HOURS Down the Drain

Post by Alt » Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:06 am

What is the system specs? Maybe, not enough memory? Or SCSI controller problems?

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Re: 19 HOURS Down the Drain

Post by knip » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:34 am

During the scan, the RU-Bin process was using 100,000K to 300,000K. Total used on the whole system during that time was 900 meg of 2 Gig physical available.

The original issue was the bbwc on the controller failed and it wrote bad data to the drives. This somehow messed up the partition (this is what Microsoft stated on my 6 hour call to them). Drive in question was a dynamic GPT disk, raid 5 2tb. There is another partion on the MSA 20 that was not touched and it is funtioning properly.

Secondary array controller is an HP 642 with 64meg onboard. I cannot tell you what the controller is inside of the MSA 20, however, the accellerator batteries are the ones that have failed insided the msa 20.

I think it would be a good programming change on your part to have it save the *.scn file automatically to a directory. I "missed" this step in my initial setup of the full scan. I have since enabled the *.scn file on the desktop. I am doing a basic scan and the .scn file is currently sitting at 600meg with about 70% done scanning.

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Re: 19 HOURS Down the Drain

Post by knip » Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:56 pm

This time the scan runs fine, but the system hangs on the "analying recognized partitions" portion. I have to close the program and it does not save the data.
Luckily I have the .scn file. What to do?

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Re: 19 HOURS Down the Drain

Post by norway » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:02 pm

Hi there - I have the same issues, and also have the .scn file but I am not sure what to do next.
Please help!

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Re: 19 HOURS Down the Drain

Post by Alt » Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:30 pm

norway wrote:Hi there - I have the same issues, and also have the .scn file but I am not sure what to do next.
Please help!
Please compress the file and send it to me. I'll pass it to our developers to analyze it and to solve the problem.

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Re: 19 HOURS Down the Drain

Post by paul_russell » Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:37 pm

i got the same problem.

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Re: 19 HOURS Down the Drain

Post by Alt » Tue Jun 15, 2010 5:06 am

We're trying to fix the problem.

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Re: 19 HOURS Down the Drain

Post by msftone » Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:06 pm

Ok do let me konw ..

i see no activity accross the system drive, memory, or ohterwise so looks like a hung processing thread but i ahven't attached a debugger yet.

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Re: 19 HOURS Down the Drain

Post by msftone » Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:15 pm

oh in my case, this is a 1tb data drive in non-raid configuration. it has 650gb of data on it ..

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