Thanks a lot to all for your help and advice. The workaround Gail suggested earlier seems to be getting me past the latch error situation. I have been shrinking 10...

I think the "hardware guys" set up RAID 5, I have an email out to confirm. I see 5 physical disks (besides C: and D: which are OS/Other Data file...

Thanks, I will read up on that. Some additional info for now. Appears that maybe there is a conflict between DBCC, LAZY WRITER, and CHECKPOINT. I was watching sysprocesses and...

Thanks all. I have been suspicious of this IO subsystem and still am.

I am the only one on the server so I don't think heavy load is an issue.

Here is...