At 14:33, on Oct 26, 2004, Stephane wrote:

Derek Lai wrote:

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I will not work either with just a simple spares_zero command (which only zeros a spare). The problems is DataOntap will refuse to put the drives into the system. You have to completely rewrite the label on the drive. To do so requires that you reboot and drop into the maintenance menu and then pick the option to re-label the drive.

yes, type ^C at boot, but instead of choosing "maintenance mode" choice 5, choose "zeroing all disk" choice 4 this my workaround : this erase all label on all disk (and all data so beware) zeroing doesn't have to terminate, run it only for 5 or 15 minutes

Does anyone know if the "label" command from "priv set diag" can be used (running from a pre-6.5 filer)? Is anyone willing to share the syntax for that command, as I don't have a non-production filer to play on.

Basically, I have 3 disks that were inadvertently inserting into a box running 6.5 - and I'd like to reclaim them for use under 6.4, but without having to have a head down in maint mode to do so.

Thanks. Davin.