Cannot Upgrade Non-Shared Hard Disks on Cluster Server

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

SYMPTOMS

On a Windows 2000 Advanced or Datacenter Server with the Cluster service installed, you cannot upgrade shared disks to dynamic disks. The option is not available. You may also experience this behavior if you have a third or fourth SCSI bus in the computer and you attempt to upgrade hard disks on those SCSI buses.

CAUSE

This issue can occur because Windows 2000 cannot tell which SCSI bus is shared and which SCSI bus is not shared.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 2000.

MORE INFORMATION

The SCSI bus that contains the system disk is the only bus that has the option to upgrade disks. The system disk bus is always local and never shared.

Additional query words: ldm veritas mscs

Keywords : kbhw kbnetwork diskmem
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb