hi can anyone help me out with the following two errors that appearing in my event log ? thanks Event Type: Warning Event Source: MRxSmb Event Category: None Event ID: 3034 Date: 9/15/2004 Time: 12:32:45 PM User: N/A Computer: SANTIAGO Description: The redirector was unable to initialize security context or query context attributes. Data: 0000: 00 00 08 00 02 00 56 00 ......V. 0008: 00 00 00 00 da 0b 00 80 ....Ú..€ 0010: 00 00 00 00 5e 00 00 c0 ....^..À 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0028: 68 04 00 00 5e 00 00 c0 h...^..À Event Type: Warning Event Source: Disk Event Category: None Event ID: 34 Date: 9/15/2004 Time: 1:09:41 PM User: N/A Computer: SANTIAGO Description: The driver disabled the write cache on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0. Data: 0000: 0f 00 04 00 01 00 62 00 ......b. 0008: 00 00 00 00 22 00 04 80 ...."..€ 0010: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0028: 00 00 00 00 ....

i have both of these pop-up on a regular basis on my server 2000. neither are critical errors so dont panic, do you run RAID? the disk cache error arised on mine when the intel server management discovered a defective drive, and so the warning light came on, later to find the drive had died. replaced and not had an error since.

Hi, First error - I get that every hour on the hour on one of my servers, have for two years! Goes away for a month and then comes back again. I have not been able to figure out why. On the write cache thing, I find Windows server will disable the write cache on any non-SCSI/non-SATA drive. Now if that just started happening - it as cached before - then you might have a developing HDD problem. Peter

thanks for the replies guys I will keep an eye on them to see if they go away. nudesign - no i dont have raid setup its just sitting on a basic disk

event id: 34 are common events logged after a server is promoted to a domain controller. 34's are logged once every-so-often -they are truly no concern.