I also completed a F760 for F840 swap this weekend. It sounds like your swap went much quicker than mine. Here are a list of "issues" we encountered:

- First and foremost - NETAPP, QUIT PUTTING THE GROUNDING SCREWS ON THE SIDE OF THE FILER! It's _really_ difficult to get that screw loose when you can't remove the side panel!! (EMC Sym on one side, another filer on the other). We had to pull the disk tray above the filer, pull the rail, and be very dexterous to get the things loose. To top it all off, the 840 is in the same chassis!

- We had the 2 840s and 6 disk trays included in the order for one of our other locations, everything was shipped there. We then FedEx'd the filers and the disk trays to another data center. The boxes looked like they had gone through Saigon. Dunno if it was out of the box, or because of shipping, but we ended up having a bad motherboard on one of the 840s, it would just reboot without warning after about 10-15 seconds. Thank God for the spares kit!

- We added 3 drive trays to each filer. 2 of the drive trays shipped with an OS. Luckily, we put those 2 trays in the same cabinet. After a major annoyance, we booted with the floppies to each tray, destroyed the volume, and drudged through.

- Of the 6 trays we received, only 4 fibre cables were in the boxes. Ugh!

Only the box with the bad motherboard ran a parity recalc, presumably because we pulled the NVRAM battery and card when we swapped mobos. Both boxes made us do a Disk_FW upgrade.

All in all, it went really well, even with the minor headaches. I was fortunate enough to have a NetApp PSE on hand, and he had the situation well under control at every turn.

-john

John Witham MCSE, MCP+i, A+ Systems Engineer Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. V://847.383.3304 F://847.383.3205 mailto://jwitham@takedapharm.com

-----Original Message----- From: Matt Phelps [mailto:mphelps@cfa.harvard.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 8:48 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: SUMMARY: F840 for F740 swap

Just to let you all know, the swap went very well Friday night. We followed the previously mentioned NOW article (Solution ID: 3.0.6869703.2865011) with no problems. The only differences were running a required disk_fw_update after the 840 reboot. Also, the original fibre channel card from the 740 wasn't supported in the 840. Fortunatley the 840 we got came with it's own FC card. However, it wouldn't go in slot 1, like we had on the 740 because it is a longer PCI card. This forced all the disks to be re-numbered, but it came up just fine.

Also, the 840 ran a parity recalculation on all the disks. (Perhaps caused by the disk re-numbering?). This was a bit unexpected, and slightly panicy as all the disk lights were going nuts after we brought the 840 up. But the filer was serving up volumes just fine, so we trusted "The Force" and let it go. It finished a few hours later and all is well. We even added a new tray of disks to get us over 1TB!

Thanks to all who responded.