Hey Clarence, Haven't seen you since NetApp training in Sydney, hope all is well. You are definitely right. You are asking for trouble putting in unqualified disks.
Now, has anybody got any clues on my NFS problems I posted?
Aaron Hill Systems Engineer Navitaire
-----Original Message----- From: Clarence Ngoh [mailto:cngoh@bigpond.net.au] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:06 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: qual_devices and ST173404FC
I am pretty sure that third party disks are not usable. NetApp disks contains a firmware that needs to operate and understand the WAFL system. Note that your system will automagically shut down in 72 hours with the continued use of the unqualified disk.
-- Clarence.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:40 am, in a distant galaxy, steve@hq.newdream.net, wrote:
I installed 3rd party Seagate drives ST173404FC drives in my F720 filer running Ontap 6.3. I updated the /etc/qual_devices with the one from the website. However the filer still complains about these disks. It says:
Disk 8.8 ("SEAGATE ", "ST173404FCCereva", "FAD5") could not be qualified
Device qualification failure detected. Refer to the qual_devices man page for information on updating device qualification data. All devices MUST be qualified for continued system operation.Mon Oct 14 23:14:50 GMT [dyn_dev_qual_admin:error]: Device qualification failure detected. Mon Oct 14 23:14:50 GMT [dyn_dev_qual_admin:info]: Firmware is up-to-date on all disk drives Mon Oct 14 23:14:50 GMT [ses_update_admin:info]: All disk shelves have up-to-date firmware.
Can I edit the qual_devices and add a line for ST173404FCCereva? Because it already has a line for ST173404FC which I thought would work fine with these drives. Whatever 'Cereva' means I don't know, but the drives are brand new and they don't say Cereva on the front. They say 'Model: ST173404FC'. So I'm not sure why netapp is recognizing them differently.
Has anyone else been able to use 3rd party 72GB disks? Which brand/model did you use. I've had no trouble before using 3rd party ST19171FC disks. This is the first time I've ever seen anything like this.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve