I believe we ran nto a similar problem which was fixed when I upgraded OnTap and the Firmware

From: Ozzie Sabina ors@cimedia.com To: Collin LeGault clegault@corp.earthlink.net, toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: netapp bad disk bug Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 15:03:06 -0400

+-- Collin LeGault clegault@corp.earthlink.net once said: | I have a couple of netapps that are doing this same weird thing. They both | are reporting a bad disk, and when you replace the disk, the red light comes | on for the new disk, and the netapp marks it as a broken disk. They are | F760, running 5.3.5R3 of ontap. Someone thought we should take a down | time and reboot them to see if that fixed it, but I wanted to avoid the huge | amount of work that would be and see if anyone here has any suggestions. | If you need more information about the filers to figure this out, let me know

I've had similar problem in the past (new disk was not recognized at all - looked like an empty slot to the filer) and it was eventually tracked down to a bad LRC. If this is a clustered system, see if the other filer is seeing the disk.

Oz

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