Toasters,

Does anybody have more information on support bulletin 7010246? I just received an email urging us to upgrade to ONTAP 8.1.4 P9 as earlier versions of 8.1.4 are "more susceptible to potential system disruptions and/or data loss due to drive failures exceeding the two drive failure protection offered by RAID-DP."

We've been planning to upgrade to P9 so this isn't that big of a deal. However, I'm just curious if this is a new development or has this always been a problem with pre-P9 releases of 8.1.4?

The support bulletin is light on background information. If this hasn't always been an issue, the only logical conclusion I can come to is NetApp is shipping new replacement drives that don't play well with pre-P9 releases of 8.1.4.

Thank you all very much. Phil