Windows Server 2012 RC - StarWind Free Edition Errors

ticktok · Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:03 pm

Is the Windows Server 2012 RC a supported O/S for the free edition??

I am having CRC corruption on disks created and then written to from a Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Cluster, please see logs attached. I have written to Alex Satler asking for a quote for the StarWind CDP Edition as I hope that I can get some assistance in setting this up as my current NAS box has become unreliable and I need a replacement system up and running quickly.

Please see attached log - and let me know if I am doing something really dumb.

Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:22 pm

Should work. In any case these issues has nothing to do with RC 2012 itself. Engineers will take a look shortly.

ticktok · Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:21 pm

You were right the cause was the Raid controller choosing a 1K sector size instead of a 512 byte.

Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:21 am

So you owe me a beer

Seriously StarWind should work with non-matching block sizes (say StarWind emulates 4KB disk on top of 512 byte/block media and StarWind does 512 byte blocks on 4KB native sector disk).
I'll check our update status as there has been quite a lot of work there. In general - it *IS* an issue and fixing RAID block size is a workaround only.

ticktok wrote:You were right the cause was the Raid controller choosing a 1K sector size instead of a 512 byte.

ticktok · Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:54 pm

Thanks will wait for an update.

Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:08 pm

Ok, so we are working on it now.
We`ll let the community know when we`ll do this.

Thanks for your cooperation!