User Guide

46 Traditional File Services Administration Guide
Traditional File Services Administration Guide
103-000180-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
The server does not have enough RAM
The disk driver for external drives are not be loaded
To resolve problems when only some volumes mount, do the following:
Add more RAM.
Verify which drivers are loaded.
Resolving Disk Error Problems When a Volume Is
Mounting
To diagnose problems when disk errors occur while a traditional volume is
mounting, identify whether the following conditions exist:
The server does not have enough memory to mount the volume.
The operating system is experiencing directory sector mismatching. This
mismatching can be caused if the media is defective or if the server is
turned off without the DOWN command.
To resolve disk error problems that occur while a volume is mounting, do the
following:
Check the status of the available cache buffers. If the available cache
buffers are fewer than 20%, add more memory to your server.
Minor errors usually correct themselves through normal network use. For
example, if a file allocation table (FAT) entry is wrong, the entry is
updated and corrected the next time the table is written to. If errors do not
correct themselves, repair the volume using VREPAIR.
Resolving Memory Errors When a Volume Is Mounting
To diagnose memory error problems when a traditional volume mounts,
identify whether the following conditions exist:
Volumes take more memory to mount than they require after being
mounted because the mounting process performs consistency checks (for
example, the duplicate copies of all the tables are checked).
Volumes and directory entries grow dynamically. Therefore, if your
server is using most of the RAM (file cache buffers are close to 20% of
the memory) and you dismount a volume, you might not be able to
remount the volume unless additional memory is available.