Thomas --

We have had the same problem in our cluster environment for awhile now... and I tried these two additional reg-pokes you suggested.

We had been thinking it was disk issues up till point... we are going to get EMC involved sometime today.

Anyhow, I tried the pokes and they look to have worked... I have a process that would cause the error most every time... once I put these in, it wouldn't fail. I took them back out, and things started failing again. So... I'm proceeding with cautious optimism that this works for us...

BUT... not being very strong from a network perspective... how did you come across these reg-pokes and what exactly do they do and why would I need to be concerned about them on the cluster but not on our other non-clustered SQL servers? Just curious if you have answer..

Thanks!

Mike Metcalf