Re: Physical disk hangs at "offline pending"



Sounds like something has a handle to the drive that is preventing cluster from completing the Offline process. What kind of group is this disk resource in?

Chuck Timon, Jr.
Microsoft Corporation
Longhorn Readiness Team
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"Henry" <Henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4429C77B-C125-4677-8F00-C2D96D014716@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I have a 2 node cluster that works correctly when the active server goes down.
All resources are taken over by the passive member.

When I try to move resources from node 1 to node 2 everything works fine as
well.
The problem is that when I try to move the the resources back to the
original node all resources move except for one physical disk. This physical
disk status remains as "offline pending". The cluster log contains many
entries similar to what follows:
"FmpofflineResource: offline resource <drivex>returned pending"
until finally
"RmpTimerThread: Resource drivex pending timed out, CP 3 - seting state to
failed."

The only way for us to get the offline resource available for the other
cluster member is to reboot the server that failed to put the physical drive
offline.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
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Thanks in Advance,

Henry

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