Re: Possible software cause for total data loss?

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997 sirbruce@ix.netcom.com wrote:

1. Filer crashes while running - Reboot
2. Filer crashes replaying NVRAM - Reboot
3. Filer crahses again while replaying NVRAM - Reboot
4. Filer realizes it's failed replaying NVRAM twice in a row, so it flags it as bad, dumps the NVRAM, and - Reboot

After replacing all the disks with new ones, the same crash popped up again on that filer, after two more days of heavy reads and writes. I rebooted it ten times in a row... kernel panic every time on "../driver/disk/disk.c:2633: Assertion failure" right after the "Recomputing parity in NVRAM" message (I assume that means it never gets around to replaying the WAFL logs?).

Call Netapp tech support, was told an on-call engineer would call back... haven't heard anything back yet. *sigh*