16-May-2005

More cluster issues
Io and Daphne still cause some trouble - Diana hangs if they shut down, it has to do with VOTES and EXPECTED_VOTES parameters. Tried to set both Io and Daphne to non-voting members (VOTES := 0) but that implies them to boot from Diana. But Diana's [SYS0] directory is not accessable, so startup crashes. Non-clustered startup (hooked off the network) causes no problems, just takes a long time. Quite obvious since it will wait for connection (normally quick), or it will time-out (and that waiting period is set too high).
So restarted Io stand-alone, practicing some patience, and set VOTES back to 1. Autogen'd and rebooted. Next boot into the cluster, connetion to Diana succeeded - and the Io startup crashed again since it's system disk is still known by Diana. Diana accepted Io's request - and is now hung because Io's startup failed.....AHHH. Have to cycle power on Diana because ^P doesn't work (no console - it's a workstation WITH graphics...). Afterwards, rebooted Io and Daphne and all is well. Shutdown Daphne, keep Io running to prevent Diana hanging again....

Why Io running and not Daphne? Well, Daphne gets VERY, VERY hot (burnt my fingers on it's disks when trying to re-jumper them....) and Io seems to stay pretty cool.

Now the problem is: how to keep Diana running when the other two can be switched off...