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Wictor Wilén

SharePoint Server MVP / Author / MCT / MCTS / MCP / MSc writing about SharePoint and other interesting Microsoft technologies

Delay write failed on Virtual Server 2005

Posted at 2006-09-26 06:33 by Wictor Wilén in Virtual Server , Windows Server 2003 with 2 comments.

I ran into some problems, that I thought I would share - with the reason, on one of our Virtual Server 2005 R2 machines, running Windows 2003 R2. We had problems copying files to the machine and recieved Delay Write Failed application popups, and it recorded the following event in the Event Log.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11
Date: 9/26/2006
Time: 1:30:05 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER
Description:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1.

The reason for this was that the Virtual Server host disk was running out of space and the harddisks were running dynamically expanding virtual disks.

Comments and trackbacks

#  same problem by MAgnus
Screenshot from websnpr We have the same problem, try increasing the value for disk timeout.
#  Thanks by Spencer Steel
Screenshot from websnpr A newbie to Virtual Server - just did the same thing ! S.S.
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