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Matti · Guest

Hi there,

anyone had issue whereby running a CHKDSK /F causes the physical disk
resource to fail or failover to another node. I found that when I bumped up
the IsAlive setting from 5000 to 30000 (and ran the CHKDSK again) the CHKDSK
would progress a little further into its stages. We then bumped the value to
its maximum, but the physical disk resource still ended up in a failed state
during the CHKDSK process ? The physical disk resource would come online if
we manually brought it online again. Does anyone know a workaround or why
this is happening ? i.e. temporarily delete the physical disk resource and
return it to the OS as a native disk - then run a chkdsk on it ? - then add
it back to the cluster as a physical disk resource ?

(looks like similar looksalive behaviour as mentioned in:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;257937&Product=winsvr2003)

Thanks in advance ..

Gerald Aigenbauer · Guest

hi matti!

i think it´s a problem with the isalive check, because during that check a
file is created on the disk and if it can´t be created, the resource
failover to the other node.
as a workaround you can delete the second node as a possible owner of the
disk resource, so a failover can´t happen during chkdsk. after chkdsk
reenter that node. in most conditions that was the quick-n-dirty solution
for me.

gerald aigenbauer.

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