topic disk auto assign not working... in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/disk-auto-assign-not-working/m-p/69655#M16257 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm confused, anybody have some insights into the decision process of Ontap when to auto assign a replaced disk and when not to?</P><P></P><P>I see this more and more not working.</P><P></P><P>Example:</P><P>cluster filer</P><P>ontap 7.3.7P1</P><P>auto assign is ON</P><P>two disk shelfs, 1 with 1TB SATA (assigned to one head), 1 with 600GB SAS (assigned to the other head).</P><P>one disk fails, gets replaced and stays unowned...</P><P>only after manually assigning the disk it is available</P><P></P><P>Why is this system not able to auto-assign the disk?</P><P></P><P>Thanks for enlightening me.</P><P>Peter</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:10:43 GMT peter_lehmann 2025-06-05T06:10:43Z disk auto assign not working... https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/disk-auto-assign-not-working/m-p/69655#M16257 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm confused, anybody have some insights into the decision process of Ontap when to auto assign a replaced disk and when not to?</P><P></P><P>I see this more and more not working.</P><P></P><P>Example:</P><P>cluster filer</P><P>ontap 7.3.7P1</P><P>auto assign is ON</P><P>two disk shelfs, 1 with 1TB SATA (assigned to one head), 1 with 600GB SAS (assigned to the other head).</P><P>one disk fails, gets replaced and stays unowned...</P><P>only after manually assigning the disk it is available</P><P></P><P>Why is this system not able to auto-assign the disk?</P><P></P><P>Thanks for enlightening me.</P><P>Peter</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:10:43 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/disk-auto-assign-not-working/m-p/69655#M16257 peter_lehmann 2025-06-05T06:10:43Z Re: disk auto assign not working... https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/disk-auto-assign-not-working/m-p/69660#M16258 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Filer must own the whole loop for autoassign to work. And it has to be enabled ☺</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:42:56 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/disk-auto-assign-not-working/m-p/69660#M16258 aborzenkov 2013-02-07T11:42:56Z