Thanks for the responses everyone!
Jeff Sloan wrote:
Yes there is definitely spin up issues with some of the old firmware on the 18G FCAL disks. Upgrading the firmware to the newest releases is the right move. Doing it individually is a very safe method up updating them, and definitely desirable, as you've had a few disk fail on you. I would like to note this is just on the older firmware revisions on the 18G drives. (hence once you finish upgrading you won't have to worry about this repeating itself).
In regard to your current situation, The solution is to reboot the node that is reporting the mailbox disk error. We have a workaround that allows you to avoid rebooting, but it's only for ONTAP 6.1X and above.
Did you halt the second system when upgrading the firmware? There's a specific process to upgrading the disk firmware on a cluster pair. You can review that process here:
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel601r3/html/sag/fw_up5.htm#...
Cheers! :-) Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: Geoff Hardin [mailto:geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:40 PM To: Sloan, Jeff Subject: Re: disk_fw_update
Jeff, The cluster is running DOT NetApp Release 5.3.4R2. We are updating the firmware in anticipation of upgrading to DOT 6.1.1R1. We have had problems with some of our filers with the old 18GB disks during the upgrade; during the last upgrade, we lost 3 disks, fortunately in 3 separate RAID groups. Needless to say, it made for a very long, very tense night as the disks rebuilt. We were hoping to update the firmware of each disk separately so that we could avoid this problem.
Geoff Hardin geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com Politicians and diapers need changing often for similar reasons.