Hi all,
We've got an F740 from another site where they tried upgrading it to 6.1.1 something, but now the system thinks that it's a NetCache C720 instead.
I want to upgrade it to 6.2R2, so I've downloaded the software and created the boot floppies (all five of them) and used them to boot. I then initialized six of the disks on the system, and made a new filesystem, but it still thinks that it's a NetCache.
Has anyone run into this before? Any suggestions on how to change the system back?
Thanks, John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-399-0479
IIRC, there's a magic prom setting that sets the personality of the box. I'm quite certain its hidden though (undoubtedly to prevent users from taking advantage of price disaparities). I'd love to know how it got that way, but support should be able to reverse it for you.
On the subject, and bringing up an old one, has anyone ever tried using the three internal slots on a "C700/C800" head as root volume disks for an F700/F800?
..kg..
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 stoffel@lucent.com wrote:
Hi all,
We've got an F740 from another site where they tried upgrading it to 6.1.1 something, but now the system thinks that it's a NetCache C720 instead.
I want to upgrade it to 6.2R2, so I've downloaded the software and created the boot floppies (all five of them) and used them to boot. I then initialized six of the disks on the system, and made a new filesystem, but it still thinks that it's a NetCache.
Has anyone run into this before? Any suggestions on how to change the system back?
Thanks, John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-399-0479
A quick update on my status here. Unfortunately the system is not under maintenance with NetApp, though we are going to work on getting back under that before we re-deploy this F740.
I've opened up the case, checked the part numbers and it's really an F740. But even when I boot off the Diagnostics disk, it still insists that it's an C720 and won't let me run DataOnTap as a NetApp properly.
I did do the following at the OK prompt:
unsetenv netcache?
But that did not seem to make a difference. Nor did re-flashing the 2.8a_2 firmware make any difference either.
Lots of fun, I'll play with this more tomorrow.
Thanks to the people who gave me the hint about the netcache? setting in the PROM, it just didn't do much to help.
Thanks, John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-399-0479
We've got an F740 from another site where they tried upgrading it to 6.1.1 something, but now the system thinks that it's a NetCache C720 instead.
I want to upgrade it to 6.2R2, so I've downloaded the software and created the boot floppies (all five of them) and used them to boot. I then initialized six of the disks on the system, and made a new filesystem, but it still thinks that it's a NetCache.
Has anyone run into this before? Any suggestions on how to change the system back?
One of our resellers got motherboard replacement from NetApp and their F740 started to think that it is NetCache. I spent almost whole day on solving this problem and only found that unsetenv netache? did the trick only for DOT 5.3.x. After upgrade to newer system it again become NetCache. They solved this problem by opening techsupp case with NetApp and got another mainboard. Fortunately it was a demo system...
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