Re: hdisks missing

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 04/25/03

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    Are you sure this is correct? Sure: you can't actually do anything with
    disks which are reserved by another system, but I thought that cfgmgr would
    still configure both pdisk and hdisk. I haven't had a chance to test this,
    though.

    Simon Green
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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Bruce Zimmer
    >
    > Hdisks will not be configured if they are in use by another machine.
    > Yes you will need to varyoff the hdisks from the production node in
    > order for the failover machine to configure them. My
    > question would be,
    > How did you lose them in the first place. Simply shutting down and
    > restarting the node, the devices that were configured before, should
    > have stayed configured.


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