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Saturday 15 October 2011

Error 5184



Server: Msg 5184, Level 16, State 2, Line 1. Cannot use file '%.*ls' for clustered server. Only formatted files on which the cluster resource of the server has a dependency can be used.


Last night we had a planned database file movement from a slower disk to a new faster disk. This database is on a two node cluster. I was informed all actions pertaining to cluster were already taken care off.
All I had in my plate was to detach the database, move the relevant files over to the new disk and attach it back. I detached, I moved the file, so far so good.
I tried to attach the files, after pointing to the new locations. This is when I received this error 5184. The error message was self explanatory and I figured that the disk was not added to the dependencies list for SQL server service in the cluster group.
So to achieve this, I took the SQL service offline from cluster administrator, and included the new disk in the dependency list from the properties page of the SQL server service. Then proceeded to start the SQL server, and tried attaching the database. And it succeeded this time.


This is also covered in this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295732