topic Init failed disks in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Init-failed-disks/m-p/35236#M2462 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Hi There,</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">I see sometimes the disks becomes init failed and goes to broken pool. So my question is how to get back the init failed disks back to spare pool?</SPAN></P><P></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Cheers,</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Srikanth</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:29:28 GMT gurus 2025-06-05T06:29:28Z Init failed disks https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Init-failed-disks/m-p/35236#M2462 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Hi There,</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">I see sometimes the disks becomes init failed and goes to broken pool. So my question is how to get back the init failed disks back to spare pool?</SPAN></P><P></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Cheers,</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Srikanth</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:29:28 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Init-failed-disks/m-p/35236#M2462 gurus 2025-06-05T06:29:28Z Re: Init failed disks https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Init-failed-disks/m-p/35237#M2463 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You should go to the maintenance menu (second CTRL+C after system power up) and run the command 'disk unfail all'.</P><P>Before that you need to run a command 'raid_config' with 'deletefdr' option but I don't remember exact command spell. You should see available options when running raid_config.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:49:15 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Init-failed-disks/m-p/35237#M2463 eklimanov 2012-04-19T08:49:15Z Re: Init failed disks https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Init-failed-disks/m-p/35245#M2464 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks, and what about disks in "not responding" state? Is there a way to get them back?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:51:58 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Init-failed-disks/m-p/35245#M2464 gurus 2012-04-19T09:51:58Z Re: Init failed disks https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Init-failed-disks/m-p/35250#M2465 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What should I do if I had such situation - reinsert them and if problem persists contact support.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:12:36 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Init-failed-disks/m-p/35250#M2465 eklimanov 2012-04-19T11:12:36Z Re: Init failed disks https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Init-failed-disks/m-p/35255#M2466 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Thanks</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:20:50 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Init-failed-disks/m-p/35255#M2466 gurus 2012-04-19T11:20:50Z