Active/passive failover solution using Oracle 10gR2

Hi,
We have 2 windows 2003 servers clustered together using Microsoft Clustering Services.
ORACLE_HOME on D: drive on both servers
Data drive (P:) will be failing across to each server.
I want to implement an active/passive failover solution using Oracle 10gR2.
One option is to use Oracle Failsafe,
But Are there any best practice for Failsafe which we is more reliable?
Thanks

More inof here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/windows/failsafe/index.html

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