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how to fail a disk manually in FAS 3140

Afridi — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:59:30 GMT

Hi,

i need to fail a spare disk explicitly and then want to remove from sysytem . i tried the internet and get one command

DISK FAIL x.x.x.x but it give me error:"disk fail 4b.01.15 : Disk 4b.01.15 is not a file sytem disk". one thing that partner have taken over the other controller

plz guide

Reagrds

Re: how to fail a disk manually in FAS 3140

Ontapforrum — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:00:52 GMT

You don't need to fail a 'spare' disk (Just remove 'ownership'). "Fail" only applies to 'File-system' disk.

Just follow these steps:
https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMM1277794/html/smg/GUID-5025772D-C3D0-4948-B727-6E511CD0EDE7.html

Regarding taken-over event, check the console messages , there should be sufficient warnings for this turn of event.