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Checking for Missing Failover Cluster Dependencies

Chad Callihan ran into an error creating a new database:

A tool that restores a model type database and does a bit of configuration work was failing. I took a look at the stores procedures and started to go step by step. It didn’t take long before getting this error message when attempting to restore/create a database:

Msg 5184, Level 16, State 2, Line 3
Cannot use file ‘D:\sql_log\CC_Test_name_4.ldf’ for clustered server. Only formatted files on which the cluster resource of the server has a dependency can be used. Either the disk resource containing the file is not present in the cluster group or the cluster resource of the Sql Server does not have a dependency on it.

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