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Help getting crushed by this

i did DBCC CHECKDB and one of the DB gave Msg 823, Level 24, State 2, Line 2 I/O error 21(The device is not ready.) detected during read at offset 0x0000000001c000 in file 'E:\MSSQL2000\Data\FTSWE_Data.MDF'.

I was working on a remote server, from my, local host accessing a remote DB.

Also i was on VPN.

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Probably belongs on serverfault. Anyhow, I would contact whomsoever is hosting the box, it seems like there is a nasty disk error brewing. I hope you have backups, etc.

Wyatt Barnett
the server was restarted and it worked
vas
That's good, but are you sure something important, like the hard drive your data lives on, isn't failing?
Wyatt Barnett
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Error 823 is nasty. It's a hard IO error

See Paul Randall's site for "823". he wrote DBCC CHECK DB

...it says that an I/O operation failed at the OS level and the I/O subsystem is causing corruption...

I'd double check your backups now and call them to make sure they know something is wrong.

gbn