<div class="content" name="CprepDiskPRArbitrate" uuid="b18478bc-88bc-4b16-ac72-a1789c82845a"><p>The <b>CprepDiskPRArbitrate</b> method establishes ownership
of a <b>ClusPrepDisk</b>.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> HRESULT CprepDiskPRArbitrate(
   [in] CPREP_DISKID DiskId
 );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>DiskId: </b>The identifier of the <b>ClusPrepDisk</b>
representing the disk.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b>A signed 32-bit value that
indicates return status. If the method returns a negative value, it has failed.
Zero or positive values indicate success, with the lower 16 bits in positive
nonzero values containing warnings or flags defined in the method
implementation. For more information about Win32 error codes and <span><a href="../ms-dtyp/a9046ed2-bfb2-4d56-a719-2824afce59ac" data-linktype="relative-path">HRESULT</a></span>
values, see <span><a href="../ms-erref/1bc92ddf-b79e-413c-bbaa-99a5281a6c90" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-ERREF]</a></span>
sections <span><a href="../ms-erref/18d8fbe8-a967-4f1c-ae50-99ca8e491d2d" data-linktype="relative-path">2.2</a></span>
and <span><a href="../ms-erref/0642cb2f-2075-4469-918c-4441e69c548a" data-linktype="relative-path">2.1</a></span>.</p><dl>
<dd>
<table><thead>
  <tr>
   <th>
   <p>Return value/code</p>
   </th>
   <th>
   <p>Description</p>
   </th>
  </tr>
 </thead><tbody><tr>
  <td>0x00000000 S_OK</td>
  <td>The call was successful.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>0x80070002 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND</td>
  <td>The disk was not found.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>0x80070548 ERROR_INVALID_SERVER_STATE</td>
  <td>The server&#39;s Prepare State is not Online.</td>
 </tr></tbody></table>
</dd>
<dd>
<p>For any other condition, this method MUST return a
value that is not one of the values listed in the preceding table. The client
MUST behave in one consistent, identical manner for all values that are not
listed in the preceding table.</p>
</dd></dl><p>Exceptions Thrown: No exceptions are thrown beyond those
thrown by the underlying RPC protocol <span><a href="../ms-rpce/290c38b1-92fe-4229-91e6-4fc376610c15" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-RPCE]</a></span>.</p><p>The opnum field value for this method is 24.</p><p>When processing this call, the server MUST do the following:</p><ul><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Obtain the <b>ClusPrepDisk</b> identified by the <i>DiskId</i>
parameter as described in section <span><a href="c17ce220-d244-45c9-95c0-4c31942253ee" data-linktype="relative-path">3.2.4</a></span>.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Establish ownership of the disk associated with the <b>ClusPrepDisk</b>
object, as specified in section <span><a href="80c3df2c-e763-4513-ba2d-2805913b9ef6" data-linktype="relative-path">3.2.6.1</a></span>.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>If the result of establishing ownership indicates that the disk
is owned by a different server, set <b>ClusPrepDisk.OwnedState</b> to
OwnedButNotByThisServer and return a nonzero error code.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Otherwise, set the <b>ClusPrepDisk.OwnedState</b> value to
OwnedByThisServer.</p>
</li></ul></div>