I have more news on the NTFS/CHKDSK problem under XP. To test this out,
I installed XP on a spare SCSI drive that I connected externally. I then
booted from this drive and ran CHKDSK on the RAID dirves that had given
me trouble. Guess what? There were no problems reported! Running CHKDISK
on the brand new installation on the SCSI drive, however, produced the
same series of index errors I had seen on the RAID system.

It seems that the errors that are reported are possibly fictitious when
CHKDSK is run against the boot drive. However, I did experience actual
corruption when shutting down the system! At this point I am very close
to switching my OS to Linux and using VMWare to run Windows under Linux.

Stay tuned to more on this. I appreciate the feedback some of you have
already given. Windows 2000 users may want to join this test as well,
since some reports indicate that CHKDSK on Win2k was also a bit buggy. I
don't know if CHKDSK or NTFS is to blame, but it is an unsettling
situation in either case.

Peter
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