At 16:31, on Oct 29, 2002, Mike Horwath wrote:

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:54:43PM -0500, Dan O'Brien wrote:

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<some log message header> Cluster Monitor: both partner mailbox disks have failed Disk 7a.0 is reserved for "hot spare"

1 disk is reserved for "hot spare"

Can't have SCSI disks in Clustered Failover configuration Illegal configuration. Halting ok

This is a single full shelf of 7 9GB scsi drives.

After zeroing the disks it asked me how many disks to add to the root volume as there were already 2 assigned, plus it said there were 4 spare, so I let it add the recommended 3 to give a full RAID 5 disk group (or something like that). 4+2 = 6 so I have one "missing"?

Anyway, anything obvious I can fix? There's really nothing in the old manuals I have that talks about fresh, clean install from boot floppy.

Is there a 'card' in the unit that has nothing plugged in that is not the NVRAM card?

Perhaps a cluster card...

If what you're looking to do is make it forget that it's part of a cluster, you can try the following (which worked for us on some 760c's - I've never used/seen a 600 series though). At the ok prompt, do unsetenv partner-sysid

Davin.