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jalexander -> MTA drive corruption (1.May2007 11:02:07 AM)
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Afternoon all,
I have a rather strange problem which is starting to cause production issues with alarming regularity - we are currently running Exchange 5.5 on Win2k (upgrading soon, but not soon enough!) My site consists of 10 mailbox servers, 2 PF servers, 2 bridgehead servers, 2 DR servers and one Exchange 2k3 server.
lately we've had quite a few issues with some (apparently random) mailbox and PF servers where the filesystem of the local drive (D:) which holds the MTA is corrupting and the drive needs re-formatting. I am seeing quite a few 270/290 events from the MTA at the moment, but nothing seems directly related to the corruption of the D; drive (FYI, Exchange is installed on C:, MTA, Binaries and pagefile on D:, databases on E: & logs on F:)
Has anyone else experienced this or have any idea as to what might be causing it? I have ruled out hardware beacause it has happened on several boxes ranging from HP DL380 G1's to G3's.
My current solution is to re-format the drive with NTFS, recreate the folders D:\exchsrvr\mtadata and copy the MTA database files from the CD back into the MTA. I then run MTACHECK.exe a couple of times and re-boot. everything works again - until it happens again on another different server - but management are getting increasingly twitchy about email outages during the week!
Any help much appreciated.....
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