How to: Remove Physical Disk from SQL Cluster Group (If possible)

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Hello,

I want to remove my backup raid container or x: drive from my sql
group because I don't want my sql service to fail as this volume has
had some problems with the hard drive firmware on the raid container.
I've tried to find out if this is possible to do and have not found
anything yet. I am hoping someone out there will have some thoughts
on this.

Basically, I have an active/passive win2k3 sp1 with sql 2005 sp1
clustered server on 2 dell 2850's and a 220s powervault that is having
problems with a raid container. The container has some drives that
have a timeout problem due to the firmware version (ATLAS15K2_73SCA
JNZY MAXTOR). The fix according to Dell is to flash the flash the
drives. The drives on the subsystem that are at risk are found mostly
under this raid container. My thought is that I can flash the drives
but also remove the container or volume's dependency in sql so in case
the volume fails or has problems the service continues to function
while I figure out how to deal with these bad drives/container/volume.

I have read somewhere that you can remove the "affect the group"
setting on the physical disk properties under the advanced menu but I
was wondering if there was another way that would be better.

Thanks to all for your comments.

.

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