topic Bad disk label version - 8.1 to 7.3.7 in ONTAP Hardware

Bad disk label version - 8.1 to 7.3.7

BeezSK — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:39:11 GMT

So I have a shelf from an 8.1 system apparently that was an eBay purchase. The 2020 that it was just attached to is complaining about the label version. There's no update for a 2020 past 7.3.7.

Am I totally and completely screwed here? Looks like everything I read says if the label version is newer that I need to connect it to a version 8.1 system, which I do not have.

Re: Bad disk label version - 8.1 to 7.3.7

Sahana — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 05:47:04 GMT

Hi,

Your assessment is right. Please refer KB https://kb.netapp.com/support/s/article/disk-label-version-error-or-bad-label-version-error?language=en_US for more information.

Re: Bad disk label version - 8.1 to 7.3.7

aborzenkov — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 06:13:56 GMT

Try "priv set advanced ; disk unfail -s xx.xx". You need to repeat it for each disk, it should make disk unzeroed spare.