Re: recovering from quorum disk hardware failure.

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From: Sundaram Narayanan[MSFT] (sunnar_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/11/04

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    Could you try microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering.

    It is unlikely you will get a good answer here especially since different
    volume labels does nto seem to be your problem. 

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"Von" <von_anderson@maxtor.com> wrote in message 
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> We recently had the had the quorum disk hardrive on our w2k cluster die. 
> We
> replaced it and followed the instructions given in the article:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280425/EN-US/ .  We successfully wrote the
> signature from the old quorum disk to the new quorum disk.  However, we 
> are
> still unable to start the service.  We recieve the following information 
> in
> the system event log:
>
> Event Type: Information
> Event Source: ClusSvc
> Event Category: (2052)
> Event ID: 1120
> Date:  11/9/2004
> Time:  8:12:32 AM
> User:  N/A
> Computer: (server name)
> Description:
> The DLL associated with cluster disk resource 'Disk Q:' is attempting to
> change the drive letter parameters from 'Q ' to 'Q ' in the cluster hive. 
> If
> your restore database operation failed, this could be caused by the
> replacement of a quorum drive with a different partition layout from the
> original quorum drive at the time the database backup was made. If this is
> the case and you would like to use the new disk as the quorum drive, we
> suggest that you stop the cluster disk service, change the drive letter(s)
> of this drive to 'Q ', start the cluster disk service and retry the 
> restore
> database procedure.
>
> The Cluster obviously is not recognizing the quorum disk. The info in this
> message gives reference to different partition layout.  Does anyone know 
> are
> there specific requirements for the new set of hardware?  Does the disk
> size, type and partition size need to be equavalent?  Are there any other
> steps we may be missing in the process.
>
>
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