Re: WriteFile(), ReadFile() error codes

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From: Tom Stewart (tastewar_at_newsgroups.nospam)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:25:31 -0400

If you have a RAID controller that is doing it's job, it will hide the error from the OS,
but report it out-of-band so you can take action. You'll have to look elsewhere for
notification of such errors, and it's usually hardware specific. 

--
Tom
"spinlock" <NullVoid@att.net> wrote in message news:2nf460F83ltU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Will NTFS return any error code for temporary errors that
> were recovered?
>
> For example, we have a RAID controller that is reporting
> "block reassigned" which means that a write failed, but,
> the block was reassigned and the write to the new location
> was successful.
>
> If the RAID controller reports this to the HBA/DD
> and the HBA/DD passes it on to NTFS, will NTFS
> pass something like this on to a WriteFile() call?
>
> If so, what LastError will be returned?
>
> Is there a table somewhere that shows what SCSI sense key/codes
> convert to what NTFS Error Codes?
>
> thanks,
>
>

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