Have you looked at the eventlog to see if there are any errors recorded there?
*ASB *(My Bio via About.Me <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Markko Meriniit <markko.merin...@pria.ee>wrote: > > Hello, > > we have W3K R2 x64 fileserver which has mounted some volumes from two > SAN's over fibre. Boot and windows file volumes are read/write and some > volumes are read-only(it's the SAN box setting) because there are Vsphere > virtual machine files in these volumes(VMFS file system) and Networker needs > them to be accessible so that it can do backups. > Problem is the windows boot-up time which today was longer than one hour. > After that I just powered server off, unmounted all six read-only volumes > and after that it came up within five minutes. Usually the delay isn't so > long, server comes up within 20-30 minutes, but today the delay was extra > long. And the long delay started after read-only volumes were mounted from > SAN(Automounting is disabled with "diskpart automount disable"). > Nothing is written to event log and even the safe mode failed to came up > within reasonable amount of time. Windows stays in some undetermined state. > We can ping it but nothing else works. > As the unmounting the read-only volumes helped I am inclined to think that > there is some problems with windows and read-only volumes. It can't > determine that they are read-ony and wants to do something with them? But I > really don't want to say to SAN box that map this LUN with R/W rights. I am > not sure that the windows won't write something then to these "unknown > partitions" when I use Disk management for example. Has anyone some > experiences with similar situation? > > Regards, > Markko > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
