chmod: failed to get attributes

[James D. Parra]

> Hello,
> 
> Our system drive crashed and we reinstalled Linux on a new drive. After
> re-mounting a RAID and changing the user IDs to their original number we
> still can't get to some files. As root, if we try to chown or chmod we
> get;
> 
> chmod -R  777 *
> chmod: failed to get attributes of `197304312': Permission denied
> chmod: failed to get attributes of `197308432': Permission denied
> 
> ~etc....
> 
> Any ideas on what we can do?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> James