cluster service time out during startup

[JL]

I newly installed using W2K Adv. Server with MSCS. When I
start up any of the machine, the cluster service hanged
because of the share disk not ready. An error message
displayed said some of the service hanged during start up.
Normally it takes around 6 mins for the share disk to take
online, the error message come out around 4 mins. How can
I setup cluster service to wait for longer instead of it
tried 3 times and prompted the error? Thanks.

 

[Curtis Koenig [MSFT]]

JL,
You might be able to something like what is described in this KB to do what
you want.
193888 How to Delay Loading of Specific Services
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=193888

Altough a better plan, in my opinion, would be to start the storage and let
it spin up first and when that is done start the cluster nodes.
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Curtis Koenig
Support Professional
Microsoft Clustering Technologies Support

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Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - Security

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