At 0:52, on Nov 11, 2002, Kelsey Cummings wrote:
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:53:17PM -0700, Timothy Naple wrote:
Do the disks blink red at any regular interval? Do all the disks on a given shelf blink, or just some of the disks?
Sorry for picking up on such an old thread but I'm seeing the same behavior on a NetApp that a client of mine has. It seems to work just fine and I can't find anything 'wrong' with it other than all the red 'disk-failed' led lights blink on each shelf (there are two FC9s loaded with X21s) once every 10? seconds. The shelves don't do it at the same time. They are attached to a F740 all of the disk have the latest FW for the release it's runing.
Any clues as to what could be the problem here? The client has let their support lapse so calling netapp is out of the question for now.
Do the FC9's have a 2nd LRC installed, that is currently not attached to a fiber loop?
I've seen that - where those red flashes are the shelf warning you that you have an open fiber loop on them.
Not a problem per-se - just a warning.
Davin.
Hello,
Our hot spares filer, running 5.1.2, won't boot up all the way this AM after a pretty nasty power outage last night. It says:
Warning: previous shutdown was dirty, there is possible loss of data. dumping core....
ok
First reboot it dumped core, next it says core is already there.
The support site says that we need to contact NetApps for a procedure to recover the file systems and that is about it. The manuals we have are pretty much silent on this problem.
Is there anything we can do to recover or just start from scratch (zero disks, reload -- which I can do since this is a spares machine)?
I figure this would be a good problem to try and resolve in case we see it on our production filer.
Pointers, guidance are much appreciated.
Cheers,
Dan O'Brien, dmobrien@lcsi.net Cell: 614-783-4859 Work: 614-476-8473 Home: 740-927-2178 Pataskala, OH
Dan,
How many volumes do you have? How large is each volume?
Don't jump right to the zeroing of all disks,you may be able to salvage the data on volumes other than vol0.
Joe
At 10:00 AM 11/11/02 -0500, Dan O'Brien wrote:
Hello,
Our hot spares filer, running 5.1.2, won't boot up all the way this AM after a pretty nasty power outage last night. It says:
Warning: previous shutdown was dirty, there is possible loss of data. dumping core....
ok
First reboot it dumped core, next it says core is already there.
The support site says that we need to contact NetApps for a procedure to recover the file systems and that is about it. The manuals we have are pretty much silent on this problem.
Is there anything we can do to recover or just start from scratch (zero disks, reload -- which I can do since this is a spares machine)?
I figure this would be a good problem to try and resolve in case we see it on our production filer.
Pointers, guidance are much appreciated.
Cheers,
Dan O'Brien, dmobrien@lcsi.net Cell: 614-783-4859 Work: 614-476-8473 Home: 740-927-2178 Pataskala, OH
dmobrien@lcsi.net (Dan O'Brien) writes: [...]
The support site says that we need to contact NetApps for a procedure to recover the file systems and that is about it.
So: why don't you?
Your symptoms sound a lot like damaged NVRAM contents that need to be junked to get through a reboot cleanly (backing off to the last consistency point, i.e. you could lose up to 10 seconds of filing system updates). From experience, NetApp *will* be able to talk you through a procedure to do that.
Chris Thompson Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk
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