topic Re: Disk Bypass in ONTAP Hardware

Disk Bypass

saranraj456 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:55:37 GMT

What is disk bypass and in what kind of scenario it will happen?

Thanks,

Saran

Re: Disk Bypass

BrendonHiggins — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:34:26 GMT

Have you seen this yet?

https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=3012395

Drive bypass events are situations which cause the ESH to bypass a drive port thus making it inaccessible by the host and isolating the drive from the loop. There are primarily two different kinds of drive Bypass Events:

Threshold Bypasses - Situations where the ESH detects that a certain kind of error is occurring for a specific period of time and the determination is made to bypass the port because of accumulated errors over time or over the amount of data flowing through the loop.
Policy Bypasses - Situations where the ESH detects a critical problem and bypasses a drive in order to maintain the integrity of the loop. This might be a "situational" problem which later clears, but once a drive is bypassed, it will remain bypassed until manually cleared by removing and reseating the drive, or by power cycling of the shelf.
Self Bypasses - The hard drive electronics determine that the internal circuitry cannot function properly anymore. Thus the drive itself calls to be removed from the loop.

Hope it helps

Bren

Re: Disk Bypass

saranraj456 — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:38:55 GMT

Brendon,

Thank you.

We have one case in netapp for disk failure(or disk went offline).In that case log ,I came across the word disk bypass.so i used it as disk bypass.Is it right to use?

What is the solution for drive bypass?

Re: Disk Bypass

saranraj456 — Sat, 07 May 2011 03:55:29 GMT

How does an ESH module is connected with disks.?

Regards,

Saran

Re: Disk Bypass

Darkstar — Wed, 11 May 2011 07:42:35 GMT

It can (and will) also happen if you put a disk that only supports 2gbit FC (for example a 10k RPM, or an older 15k RPM disk) into an ESH4 shelf on a 4gbit loop.

Re: Disk Bypass

SEAJEPROACT — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:07:46 GMT

I just had a situation where a disk was bypassed. "DISK_FAIL - Bypassed by ESH" "Bypassed due to the drive self bypass".

We didn't get any information when checking FAS> aggr status -f. There were no broken disks. The autosupport did show disks on position 11 and 13 but not 12.

We didn't actively do anything to fix this, approx one hour from failure the disk got inserted into the system by itself.

Not sure if this was a Threshold Bypasses?

Couldn't be the Policy Bypass, because we didn't do anything of the following "...it will remain bypassed until manually cleared by removing and reseating the drive, or by power cycling of the shelf."

Re: Disk Bypass

JGPSHNTAP — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:11:11 GMT

Yeah, this is old news.. Happens on old ESH modules. Need to manually fail disk or reseat it

Re: Disk Bypass

SEAJEPROACT — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:15:03 GMT

Check, yea I think it's v 7.3. We didn't do anything, the disk jumped into the system by itself.