A fellow toasters subscriber wrote:
I wanted to make it clear that I don't want to discourage anyone from talking. I didn't even jump on the original poster; I was just answering one of the follow-ups. People make mistakes and I've made mistakes with the best of them. If you find out something useful in your filer experience, plesae pass it along, even if it's of the "I didn't read the manual, so I did this and it crashed" variety.
I appreciate the clarification, pardner; I was in fact feeling a little jumped on.
Anyway, I should have mentioned that I searched both NOW and the F630 documentation in vain for documentation about configuration rules for FC controllers, and found nothing. This information isn't even in the F630 field service guide.
Well into the diagnosis process, a NetApp tech support person gave me the following URL, which points to a spiff-o-matic Web page that would have been a lifesaver, had I been able to find it earlier:
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/hardware/syscfg/index.htm
But here's what would have been really smart for me to do before I began: pick up the phone and call NetApp technical supprt and ask which slots accept an FC card on an F630. Of all the dumb things I did, this sin of omission was certainly the dumbest.
In response to another writer's question: I'm running ONTAP 5.3.2D3, so sysconfig -c is not there for me yet. Nice to know it's out there, though.
Finally, let me chime in in agreement on what my compatriot says above. One of the most valuable side effects of the toasters mailing list is that it provides a searchable database of what happens when you do X. I hope that folks who have done X, even a dumb X, will post their horror stories, so as to get the information out there and on disk. I'm sure that many toasters subscribers, including me, would be happy to forward along stories to the list in an anonymous fashion (anonymous to the actual culprit, that is; stripping out the identifying information). Hey, if the FAA can do this for airline pilots, we can do it for filer admins.
Brian brice@gnac.com