Pedro,      Upon following the documentation you provided, I recieved a couple new errors. Still based on what I'm reading it leads me to beleive that everything has been wiped on these disks, but again I could and am probably wrong. Here is what I got: [raid.assim.disk.badlabelversion:error]: Disk 0C.00.1 Shelf 0 Bay 1 [NETAPP x290_s15K7560A15 NA00] has raid label with version (10), which is not within the currently supported range (5 - 9). Please contact NetApp Global Services. The above error is given for each drive. How would I go about checking what raid level is set on another FAS and what command would I use exactly to change this? I went through all the commands and while I found the Raid command, I did not see any options for that command to change a raid level. Also I recieved the following: [coredump.spare.none:info]: No sparecore disk was found. [raid.assim.tree.noRootVol:error]: No usable root volume was found! PANIC: raid: there are no data or parity disks in process rc on release NetApp Release 7.3.7 Thoughts? ... View more

heh, way ahead of ya, Henry. It came back clean, thank you for the idea. have a good weekend! ... View more

I thank you and its quite obvious something is different/wrong here thus I am here to ask. I do not expect people here to fix my issue 100% but the opinions and help of others still helps guide one in the right direction. Seeing as this does not have commands that it 'should' than something can be hopefully pointed out. Again I am not looking for the world here but I thank you for your concern. ... View more

Below is the list of commands available to me. I tested out the "Disk Show" command among others like "Disk reassign", "System Node Run", "Storage Failover Giveback", "Partner" and "Run Partner" and all came back with the error of Invalid command. LOADER-B>help Available commands: version             Print loader and BIOS version. update_flash        Updates the boot flash with the firmware image on the PC-Car netboot             Boots the supplied URL off the network. boot_diags          Boots the diagnostic image off of the PC-Card. boot_backup         Boots the backup image of Data ONTAP off of the PC-Card. boot_primary        Boots the primary image of Data ONTAP off of the PC-Card. boot_ontap          Boots the correct image of Data ONTAP update_bmc          Updates the BMC firmware bmc reboot          Reboot the BMC bmc flash           Update the BMC firmware flash               Update a flash memory device bye                 Reset the system. set date            Set current date set time            Set current time set console         Change the active console device lsmod               Per-file metadata. autoboot            Automatic system bootstrap. go                  Start a previously loaded program. boot                Load an executable file into memory and execute it load                Load an executable file into memory without executing it ping                Ping a remote IP host. arp                 Display or modify the ARP Table ifconfig            Configure the Ethernet interface show date           Display current time according to RTC show time           Display current time according to RTC show devices        Display information about the installed devices. savenv              Save the environmental variables. saveenv             Save the environmental variables. unsetenv            Delete an environment variable. set-defaults        Reset all system environmental variables to default values. setenv              Set an environment variable. printenv            Display the environment variables help                Obtain help for loader commands For more information about a command, enter 'help command-name' LOADER-B> LOADER-B> disk show Invalid command: "disk" Available commands: version, update_flash, netboot, boot_diags, boot_backup, boot_primary, boot_ontap, update_bmc, bmc, flash, bye, set, lsmod, autoboot, go, boot, load, ping, arp, ifconfig, show, savenv, saveenv, unsetenv, set-defaults, setenv, printenv, help ... View more

Absolutely, I will do it as soon as I am able. ... View more

Good morning,      Well I did start on page 10 exactly where you mentioned and was able to set the date and time with no problem. Reassigning the Disks is where I run into a snag. The command "disk show -v" is not a valid command and I verified if it was in the list of available commands by typing help. As a result I did not attempt to perform any other commands seeing as I did not have vital information needed by the disk show command. Comparing the command list I did not even see other ones like "boot_ontap" found at the bottom of pg 12 for example. Tried to enter some and still recieved the invalid command error. Are there commands that can be entered even though they do not appear on the help command list? I apologize for the constant problems on my behalf but again I do really appreciate everything you are offering. Let me know when you get time Thank you Pedro Joe. ... View more

Pedro,      It seems that some of these commands listed in the directions you sent me are not available. As a result I am unable to further proceed using this guide. Not sure if this helps any but my Bios Ver is 6.1 and the loader ver is 2.1. Could it be that I have an older bios/loader? Its a tad frustrating working in a secure area and on a secure network as I am unable to find the documents I need due to the firewall/internet filters we have here. It blocks me from viewing parts of the netapp website and viewing support docs. But I know ways around it, just more frustrating in the long run. Regardless let me know Thank you again for all your help. Joe ... View more

Thanks AK, I just need to locate a digital copy of the manual. The people signed and responsible for these FAS's sadly did not provide or even receive any documentation/manual. The place I work for has some very bad business practices and I am left to my own devices. Talk about being set up for difficult times. Regardless, if what the previous user said doesnt work, I know that it will have to be rebuilt. Thank you for your input. Joe ... View more

I am able to enter maintenance mode no problem. From what I was told, only the controller was changed and I still have the original disks placed back in the order they were previously. Data recovery would be optimal and if worse comes to worse I can rebuild the entire system. Thank you very much for your input and help, its greatly appreciated. Joe ... View more