Thanks for the response. Just for clarification, I need to
disable the driver and reboot the active node in order for
it to completely release the shared volumes, correct?
>-----Original Message-----
>Ken,
>
>Turning the service off is not enough to make cluster
release the disks. You
>also need to disable the "Cluster Disk" driver. This is
found in the device
>manager as a hidden non-plug and play device (need to
show hidden devices to
>see it). Once you disable this driver and reboot, you'll
be able to access
>these disks on the node.
>
>Regards,
>JT
>
>"Ken Krause" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>news:047401c36ab9$995da110$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I am replacing a node in an active passive clustered
>> server pair. The shared drives are located in a MSA1000
>> SAN device from Compaq. The HBA is the same on both
>> servers, a Compaq KGPSA fibre channed HBA.
>>
>> When I try to use disk manager on the new node, it shows
>> the disks as basic unreadable status. I have the cluster
>> service turned off on the new node and the service
stopped
>> on the other active node. This was the only way I could
>> get the new node to even recognize any disks at all. My
>> question is how do I get the status to basic healthy?
The
>> new node is using a newer driver for the HBA than the
>> original. I was unable to find the driver that was used
in
>> the initial setup from about a year ago, shich is what
the
>> active node is using. Could this be the problem?
>>
>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Ken
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