bryan_bahnmiller@agilent.com wrote:
Rob,
I remember testing the process of failing disks on our test filer - an F87. When we did this, the filer wrote something somewhere (I can't remember offhand) and we had to trade in the disk. We called NetApp when we tried to re-use the disk and the system would not accept it. NetApp told us the only way for us to continue was to actually replace the disk.
to see failed disks:
vol status -f
to bring back a "known good" disk:
priv set advanced disk unfail <DISK>
I manually fail disks, often on R100's, to alter what disks belong in which raid groups (it matters on the R100, for performance and reliability).
be sure to turn off autosupport before you "disk fail <DISK>", unless you want to open a case with NetApp ;-)
-skottie