Clustering Problems ...

[kwagner]

An error occurred while getting partition information ...

One of the drives in my cluster failed so I pulled the bad drive and ordered a new one .. when I went to restart the clustering service again I'm getting the above message. I don't understand why since the cluster should be fine if pull only one drive but I've tried everything. I have Oracle 9iAS running on the box(s) as well but I haven't done anything to the clsutering service regarding Oracle for more than a month ...

Has anyone else had this problem or can you guys offer any suggestions?

* System is a Windows 200 Server (SP3) [Can't put SP4 on it yet due to possible complications with the Oracle software]
*Quorum RAID 1
*Raid 5 spread on eleven drives for the Cluster

 

[moolie]

Had a similar problem with an Adaptec 1000 raid controller. I pulled the bad drive after disconnecting the array and everything went to hell in a handbasket. The raid controller erased the boot sector and controller track on both HardDrives!!! Basically turned everything in the array into boat anchors. Even from the Bios the Raid controller was unable to read the good drives or the Bios to even recognize that drives existed. If you can get the system to boot, try using File Scavanger to read and recover the content of the drives that are in the array.