It's been a long time since I've dealt with NetApps, so there may be a simple solution to this that I've forgotten. Had a couple of disks fail on an old F720, the first one caused a rebuild onto the hot spare, the second one put it into degraded mode. An admin pulled the dead drives (w/o first doing a 'disk remove') and inserted a two of the same size drives from a retired system that used to be its twin (same H/W and firmware), but sysconfig -r still shows the 2 disks as broken. The references I have all seem to be for later releases, as priv set advanced disk unfail <DISK> comes back with disk: Did not recognize option "unfail". Also, I seemed to recall that the replaced drives would show up as foreign volumes since they weren't zeroed on the old system, so perhaps the system just doesn't realize the drives were replaced. I also remember that years ago when I hot-swapped a drive, the 720 seemed to 'freeze' for a minute or so, but the guy who replaced the drive said he didn't notice any pause in the activity lights on the other drives as he was replacing the failed drives. I did remember that it will only run for 24 hours in degraded mode, so I've set raid.timeout to a bigger number to buy me some time. Any suggestions on how to get it to recognize the 'new' disks?
Thanks, Frank