It turns out there was a mix of logs and database files on the drive which is why some databases responded differently then the others. Two days ago we had another drive fail but this time on the principal server and it required a reboot. Once the reboot happend some databases came back, but over all we had to take the most recent backups and restore them on the principal and then reconfigure mirroring again. We have had some very bad luck, this happened on St Pattys day so it was very very bad timing.

So, does anyone else have a mirror with witness setup? I am asking because we receive disconnection messages fairly often and we are wondering how normal this is. It does not fail over because it will connect again in time. Last night we received 4 emails about disconnects, we receive at least one a day so we turned the timeout up to 120 seconds.