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Re: RMA reminder calls ( a new wrinkle )
by Bruce Sterling Woodcock 08 Feb '00

08 Feb '00

Yeah, the disks are understandable, and many of the rest are not really broken parts but rather attempts by NTAP to troubleshoot a particular problem (hardware, software, or external). I find the power supply and fan assembly problems to be very bizarre, and guess you are either cursed or don't have the controlled enviornment you think you have. As to the EOL issues, I agree; NTAP should not EOL products as quickly as they do. I would like to see 4+ years going forward. Of course, as a shareholder, I realize this will cut into earnings. Bruce

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Pipe trouble
by Ronan Mullally 08 Feb '00

08 Feb '00

I'm having trouble creating a named pipe on a filesystem mounted from a 760 to a Linux system. The 760 is running 5.3.4R3. 'mknod <name> p' gives me a zero-length file rather than a named pipe: # mknod initctl p # ls -la initctl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 8 15:58 initctl ^ I'm sure this *used* to work (way back when I had a 540). It works fine if I try it on a filesystem mounted from a Linux server... Any ideas? -Ronan

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Tape Drives
by Mark D Fowle 08 Feb '00

08 Feb '00

Does anyone have Spectralogic 4000 (dat) with 4 drives, or Spectralogic 10000 (ait-2) with 2 drives or a Breece Hill (DLT 7000) with 2 drives .... attached to your filers ? Mark Fowle

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RMA stuff
by Jay Orr 08 Feb '00

08 Feb '00

Humm.. I'm still kinda new to netapps. Just had to get replacement SIMMS since we had faulty ones on one of our F330's. I like how they send 2 boxes, each with 2 sticks of SIMMS in them. The boxes are 8"x14"x2" or so. A little overkill, but they're not the only ones guilty of that. My question is - when I have had problems with SUN equipment, they send a packet that has tons of info for returning the defective product including a UPS shipping sticker packed with a replacement part. With these 2 boxes of SIMMS, there was absolutely no paperwork - just an RMA tag on each box. So, now I gotta call them up and hassle with them to figure out how to return this stuff?? ----------- Jay Orr Systems Administrator Fujitsu Nexion Inc. St. Louis, MO

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AIT-2 anyone?
by mgx＠spruce.lsd.ornl.gov 07 Feb '00

07 Feb '00

good day all ... is anyone using AIT-2 to backup their filer's yet? i don't recall hearing about netapp support for AIT yet, but they have been available for awhile now. -- -- michael galloway

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snapshot behavior
by Greg Kitch 07 Feb '00

07 Feb '00

I am using rsync to synchronize directories and have noticed (I think) the following behavior..... I created a snapshot on my filer and ran rsync from the snapshot directory to copy the files to a remote directory. The following day I mistakenly ran rsync from the same snapshot directory without taking a new snapshot. On almost all directories rsynced in this fashion there were no differences between the source and destination directories, as expected. However, in one directory rsync deleted the directory ".nfs18C041/" and all files and subdirectories of this directory from the destination file system, indicating that it had disappeared from the snapshot directory. A check of the two directories using find that was run between the execution of the two rsync commands showed that this directory was the only difference between the two directories other than symbolic link dates and directory sizes which we expected. Given the nature of the .nfs directory it occurs to me that removing this type of directory from snapshots when they disappear from the regular file system might be intentional. Does this seem reasonable or have I done something dumb and possibly misinterpreted what occurred? That couldn't be, could it? Thanks. Greg Kitch UCLA SEASnet Computing Facility

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RE: Any clue to why I'm getting errors below?
by Paquette, Trevor 07 Feb '00

07 Feb '00

On Solaris an 'underflow' is an error due to a busy bus. How loaded is your system? What type of network are you on? Shared or Switched? The numbers of error that you are seeing are not condusive to having different duplex speeds at either end of your connection. If you are running a shared network, then you might be seeing 'backoff' errors. Errors when the shared segment is too busy. (Even though your number of collisions is showing as 0) If you are running a switched network.. then I don't know what the problem might be. What type of switch are you connected to? -- Two rights do not make a wrong. They make an airplane. Trevor Paquette | AT&T Canada |Work:(403)705-6390 TrevorPaquette(a)metronet.ca |600, 205 5th Ave SW | Fax:(403)705-9601 http://www.metronet.ca |Calgary, AB, Canada |ICBM:51'03"N/114'05"W Senior Unix Network Architect| T2P 2V7 |Mind:In the Rockies > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Johannes [SMTP:rjohanne@damango.net] > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 2:51 PM > To: toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: Any clue to why I'm getting errors below? > > Below is the out put from ifstat. I'm wondering what could be causing > the errors in both the TRANSMIT and RECEIVE sections, and why the > Underflow in the TRANSMIT section. > > Could(are) the errors and Underflows in the TRANSMIT section be related? > > > OUTPUT FROM IFSTAT > ================== > > daspace1> ifstat e3a > e3a: MAC address 00:c0:95:e0:fc:7c > > RECEIVE > ======== > Packets: 116m | Bytes: 2762m | Errors: 19 > No buffers: 0 | Length err: 0 | Runt frames: > 0 > Long frames: 0 | Collisions: 0 | CRC error: 19 > > H/w overflow: 0 | Process stop: 2239k | List overflow: > 0 > Process reset: 2239k | Rst frame drops: 585 > > TRANSMIT > ======== > Packets: 132m | Bytes: 1196m | Errors: 8376 > > Collisions: 0 | Late collisions: 0 | Excess coll: > 0 > Queue full: 0 | List full: 0 | No carrier: > 0 > Underflow: 8321 | Defer: 0 | Time out: > 0 > Stopped: 0 | List underflow: 2164 | Loss of carrier: > 0 > No buffers: 0 | Requeue: 1396 | Threshold up: 1396 > > Threshold dn: 1396 | Threshold lvl: 0 > > DEVICE > ======= > Interrupts: 224m | Resets: 9 > > LINK INFO > ========= > Auto: Enabled | Mediatype: 100tx-fd| > > Link Partner: Auto | Link State: Up > > > > Any help will be appreciated. Thanks > > robert > -- > Robert Johannes > Systems Administrator > Kairos-Damango Internet Services Inc. > 1300 Godward Street suite 3200 > Minneapolis, MN 55413

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RE: Removing old volume to create spare
by Mohler, Jeff 04 Feb '00

04 Feb '00

You need to boot from floppies, and in maintenance mode you can perform volume operations against the root volume..etc. -----Original Message----- From: Justin Acklin [mailto:Justin.Acklin@sv.sc.philips.com] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 9:07 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Removing old volume to create spare I have some old filers which aren't worth putting on maintanence which I use for old reference data. They are 330s with 4 gig disks. I have a shelf of old 4 gig disks which has a volume on it. I'd like to make all 7 of those disks spares for the 330s. This shelf is on a 220. I brought it up and tried to destroy the volume but am unable to destroy the root volume, since it can't be brought offline. Anyone know the correct procedure to do this, and is destroying the volume adequate for making these disks spares? Or alternately, as disks fail in the 330s I can put single 4 gigs in to replace them. When I've done this in the past, though, the volume on the single disk was seen and brought online in a broken state, if I remember correctly. What would the correct procedure to take a single disk like this with data on it and make it into a hot spare on? Thanks, Justin Acklin Unix Systems Administrator Philips STB

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Removing old volume to create spare
by Justin Acklin 04 Feb '00

04 Feb '00

I have some old filers which aren't worth putting on maintanence which I use for old reference data. They are 330s with 4 gig disks. I have a shelf of old 4 gig disks which has a volume on it. I'd like to make all 7 of those disks spares for the 330s. This shelf is on a 220. I brought it up and tried to destroy the volume but am unable to destroy the root volume, since it can't be brought offline. Anyone know the correct procedure to do this, and is destroying the volume adequate for making these disks spares? Or alternately, as disks fail in the 330s I can put single 4 gigs in to replace them. When I've done this in the past, though, the volume on the single disk was seen and brought online in a broken state, if I remember correctly. What would the correct procedure to take a single disk like this with data on it and make it into a hot spare on? Thanks, Justin Acklin Unix Systems Administrator Philips STB

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RE: RMA reminder calls
by Mejia, Ruben 03 Feb '00

03 Feb '00

Greetings from NetApp Logistics. I would like to hear your comments regarding the retrieval process we have in place. I will pass on all your suggestions to management. Maybe we can change something. Thanks in advance for your input. -rube -----Original Message----- From: Graham C. Knight [mailto:grahamk@ast.lmco.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 12:49 PM To: Jim Harm Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: RMA reminder calls Jim Harm wrote: > > sometimes I'll get a call with a list of RMAs from the last 6 months > and they expect me to respond with the whereabouts of every RMA > when the fact is they have all been shipped back to NetApp. I used to get these too. The last one i got i was blatantly rude to the person who called, which is very much against my character (i hope). But man, why should i have to go through 50 RMA's with these people once a month?? They haven't called me back since. :-) Funny thing was, they were asking me about RMA's for hardware that I *know* i would never RMA, because i don't own it. I think they just lost a lot of stuff and are trying to track it down. Graham

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