Conference decwet::winnt-clusters

622.0. "Beta 1.1 Info, please" by NEWVAX::MURRAY (New Solgan now is, WHATEVER!) Sat Feb 15 1997 12:04

    Hi,
    	I got a crash course on NT-Clusters (beta 1.1) this week, went up
    to learn about Exchange, inherited much more, but its good stuff.  Its a
    Large Government facility covering the country.  Seems I'll be doing some
    traveling, starting last Tuesday, for a few weeks to come.  Now to the
    point, I'm looking for whatever NT-Clusters beta 1.1 documentation you
    have.  I've looked thru the notes, and the best I found was the Labs and
    PreTest.  Perhaps you can mail me a pointer?
    
    In another area, I ran into a problem on the sixth set of the
    NT-Clusters we were installing, yeah the last one of course, right
    after Bob G. ran out on me :).  The two raid (RAID310) set drives,
    while once appearing, went into the Off-Line state.  Also, I couldn't
    run Cluster Admin, because a quorum couldn't be reached.  Needless to
    say I punted (re-installed).  In the process of re-installing one
    system found the raidset's fine (for awhile), the other never seemed to
    pick them up again (like when NT install asks for the system partition)
    even when I powered cycled everything.  Now remember, at one point they
    'both' saw the raid drives, cause Disk Administrator showed them Off-Line.
    They were formatted for NTFS (note we did this in a production line
    style, so I didn't do 'everything'), and this is the topper - it was an
    unsupported configuration (as Bob G. informed me) of a PDC, BDC. 
    However, and perhaps unfortunately, we had a PDC, BDC config working
    right next to the one which wouldn't.  Basically the steps I used
    were NT Install, format raidsets to NTFS (in this case it had already
    been done, lots of cooks in the kitchen I guess), Lock the drive letters,
    NT SP2 install, replace OLEPRO32.DLL - Aic87xx.sys, HSZINSTL, SWCC
    install, Cluster Install (create cluster on one, join cluster on second)
    which worked or appeared too.  Note: Bios and Firmware were already
    upgraded by another individual,  I also checked the versions off the
    working clusters, they were the same.  I suppose the hardware could
    have died on me?  Did I miss something?  Any other trouble shooting
    hints?
    
    Mike M. (MCSE)

is the revision of hszdisk.sys 2.7?  there was an issue
with the storage set not going online with 2.5