Rob,

I remember testing the process of failing disks on our test filer - an F87. When we did this, the filer wrote something somewhere (I can't remember offhand) and we had to trade in the disk. We called NetApp when we tried to re-use the disk and the system would not accept it. NetApp told us the only way for us to continue was to actually replace the disk.

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Robert Borowicz
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 9:42 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Manually failing disks

Is there an issue with manually failing disks on say an unused Volume for testing purposes? IE: I want to test my spare disks and also observe volume rebuild time.

If I manually fail a disk I remember that NetApp disks store their failure data. Do I risk maxing out an internal "number of failures" register on the disks if I manually fail a disk several times?

DOT Version: 6.3.1

Disks: DS14 - 72 Gig

Type/Firmware: X235_SCHT5073F10 NA04

TIA

-Rob