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Glad to hear that!

2009-12-02T08:51:16.346-07:00

Glad to hear that!

Just thought I would report back and let you know ...

2009-12-02T07:24:34.274-07:00

Just thought I would report back and let you know that since changing the Hyper-V disk to a SCSI we've had no further repeat of the corrupt files... thank goodness!

Thanks for all your help.

Ok, thanks for all the prompt wisdom. I shall let...

2009-10-05T20:04:49.255-07:00

Ok, thanks for all the prompt wisdom. I shall let you know how it goes in the end.

When the disk was on IDE, I was getting file corru...

2009-10-05T19:28:49.210-07:00

When the disk was on IDE, I was getting file corruption... but the disk was accessible. When I switched it to SCSI, there was no new corruption, but the files that were corrupted during the 'IDE' incident were still messed up. I just had to restore them from backup as we ran across them. But, the disk never when totally south.

Incidentally, I tried to format the disk (RAID 5 a...

2009-10-05T19:24:54.516-07:00

Incidentally, I tried to format the disk (RAID 5 array) from the guest OS and it keeps reporting it can't complete. Power the guest down and put the disk online on the parent and it will format just fine. I don't suppose you had any similar experience with that?

Ok thanks for the info, that's really useful. I...

2009-10-05T19:21:24.841-07:00

Ok thanks for the info, that's really useful.

Incidentally, I'm working on this at the moment and that was the solution I was working towards.. but after running some Dell diagnostics and rebooting the server the whole 3TB partition has become uninitialised :(

I'm just in the process of reformatting.. and hoping the last backup is going to do the trick.

I moved my passthru disk to a SCSI controller on t...

2009-10-05T15:35:10.911-07:00

I moved my passthru disk to a SCSI controller on the VM and things work fine. From the research I have done, it seems to be preferred to use SCSI on VMs rather than IDE.

Hi Derek, I've just read your last post about you...

2009-10-05T15:11:14.211-07:00

Hi Derek, I've just read your last post about your disk corruptions on this page (http://www.phwinfo.com/forum/ms-virtualserver/366247-very-large-disks-hyper-v-vms.html) and I just wanted to let you know I'm having the exact same problem.

Parent OS: 2008 Server
Guest OS: 2003 Server (although SP2 only not R2 I think)
3TB IDE connected passthrough disk. Has been working fine for about a year but have started to get disk corruptions last couple of weeks. One set 2 weeks ago and some just today.