W2K3 Cluster Issue

[BillHicksRIP]

Not sure if to post here or in Enterprise, but I'll try my hand in case there's any knowledgable Windows bods that can help. I'm playing around with Microsoft Cluster Services on Windows 2003 for a study project I've been working on. Following various guides on the net I've built 3 x W2K3 VMWare servers (1 DC, 2 x member servers to be cluster nodes 1 and 2). I've also built a further VM running FreeNas and have created iSCSI mounted drives attached to the 2 cluster nodes using MS iSCSI initiator for a Data (E and Quorum (Q drives. I've followed MS Guide to Creating and Configuring a Server Cluster under Windows Server 2003 as well as I can and the cluster works fine in most respects. I can move the cluster to Node 2 manually and the resources come up correctly. E: drive, Quorum, followed by IP and Network Name all move correctly to Node 2 (and back again).

My problem is when I power off Node 1 to mimic a hardware crash, Node2 cannot restart the cluster. The drive letters E: and Q: do appear on Node2 during failover but they're inaccessible either though Explorer or to MSCS it seems.

I am a novice with this stuff but would appreciate any pointers as to why a manual failover works, but a hard shutdown of one node fails. Thanks.

000002b0.00000f70::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 WARN Physical Disk <Disk Q:>: [DiskArb] Retry arbitration, 1 attempts left
000002b0.00000f70::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 INFO Physical Disk <Disk Q:>: [DiskArb] Read the partition info to insure the disk is accessible.
000002b0.00000f70::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 INFO Physical Disk <Disk Q:>: [DiskArb] Issuing GetPartInfo on signature e18abc74.
000002b0.00000f70::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 INFO Physical Disk <Disk Q:>: [DiskArb] GetPartInfo completed, status 0.
000002b0.00000f70::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 INFO Physical Disk <Disk Q:>: [DiskArb] Arbitrate for ownership of the disk by reading/writing various disk sectors.
000002b0.00000f70::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 ERR Physical Disk <Disk Q:>: [DiskArb] Failed to read (sector 12), error 170.
000002b0.00000f70::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 INFO Physical Disk <Disk Q:>: [DiskArb] We are about to break reserve.
000002b0.00000f70::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 INFO Physical Disk <Disk Q:>: [DiskArb] Issuing BusReset on signature e18abc74.
000002b0.00000f70::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 ERR Physical Disk <Disk Q:>: [DiskArb] BusReset completed, status 1.
000002b0.00000f70::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 ERR Physical Disk <Disk Q:>: [DiskArb] Failed to break reservation, error 1.
000002b0.00000f70::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 INFO Physical Disk <Disk Q:>: [DiskArb] Arbitrate returned status 1.
00000f38.00000f44::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 INFO [MM] MmSetQuorumOwner(0,0), old owner 2.
00000f38.00000f44::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 ERR [FM] FmGetQuorumResource failed, error 1.
00000f38.00000f44::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 ERR [INIT] ClusterForm: Could not get quorum resource. No fixup attempted. Status = 5086
00000f38.00000f44::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 INFO [INIT] Cleaning up failed form attempt.
00000f38.00000f44::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 ERR [INIT] Failed to form cluster, status 5086.
00000f38.00000f44::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 ERR [CS] ClusterInitialize failed 5086
00000f38.00000f44::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 WARN [INIT] The cluster service is shutting down.
00000f38.00000f44::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 INFO [EVT] EvShutdown
00000f38.00000f44::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 WARN [FM] Shutdown: Failover Manager requested to shutdown groups.
00000f38.00000f44::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 INFO [FM] FmpCleanupGroups: Entry
00000f38.00000f44::2011/01/06-00:46:14.549 INFO [FM] FmpCleanupGroups: Exit