"Hassan" <fatima_ja@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eMc1wGuEEHA.2408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I want to setup SQL clustering but I seem to be hosed at setting up
Windows
> Clustering. I want to setup a single instance ( Active/Passive ) using
> Windows 2003 EE and SQL 2000
>
> When do i power up the second node ? Is it only after you configure Node 1
> and even set up the cluster service ? I seemed to have installed win2003
on
> both nodes before setting up cluster service.
>
> I can see the following messages in the log when i was adding the first
node
> to a cluster
>
> The physical disk "Disk Q:" cannot be managed because it is on the same
> storage bus as the boot disk.
> The physical disk "Disk G:" cannot be managed because it is on the same
> storage bus as the boot disk.
>
> Currrently I have drive C on the local array and configured drive Q and
> drive G on the external array thats shared. I could see these drives when
i
> setup the node 2 but the only thing i had to do was rename the drive
letters
> on node 2 as they came up as E and F..
>
> Let me know what Im doing wrong...
>
> Thanks
>
>

"John Toner [MVP]" <jtoner@mvps.DIE.SPAM.DIE.org> wrote in message
news:OUKMBwzEEHA.2404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Do you have a separate HBA for the external Array, or does it use the same
> HBA as the internal disks?
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> "Hassan" <fatima_ja@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eMc1wGuEEHA.2408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > I want to setup SQL clustering but I seem to be hosed at setting up
> Windows
> > Clustering. I want to setup a single instance ( Active/Passive ) using
> > Windows 2003 EE and SQL 2000
> >
> > When do i power up the second node ? Is it only after you configure Node
1
> > and even set up the cluster service ? I seemed to have installed win2003
> on
> > both nodes before setting up cluster service.
> >
> > I can see the following messages in the log when i was adding the first
> node
> > to a cluster
> >
> > The physical disk "Disk Q:" cannot be managed because it is on the same
> > storage bus as the boot disk.
> > The physical disk "Disk G:" cannot be managed because it is on the same
> > storage bus as the boot disk.
> >
> > Currrently I have drive C on the local array and configured drive Q and
> > drive G on the external array thats shared. I could see these drives
when
> i
> > setup the node 2 but the only thing i had to do was rename the drive
> letters
> > on node 2 as they came up as E and F..
> >
> > Let me know what Im doing wrong...
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
>