topic Re: Bad Sectors on disk in SolidFire and HCI

Bad Sectors on disk

Mohisina01 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:54:11 GMT

We received quite few errors regarding the bad sectors on the disk.

After raising a case we we informed to fail the disk manually and then replace

while trying to fail the disk, we are getting below error

storage disk fail -disk 2.10.3 -i true

Warning: The system will not prefail the disk and its contents will not be copied to a replacement disk before being failed
out. Do you want to fail out the disk immediately? {y|n}: y

Error: command failed: Failed to fail the disk. Reason: Disk is not a file system disk.

Can anyone help,

However all disk status are healthy and are in green

Re: Bad Sectors on disk

Ontapforrum — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 13:34:41 GMT

Is that (2.10.3) a spare disk (spare disk cannot be failed) ? You can run this command to check it -
::> storage disk show -spare

The "disk fail" command is used on a file system disk (data/parity).

Is that Storage a FAS/AFF (running ontap)?

Re: Bad Sectors on disk

Mohisina01 — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 08:52:26 GMT

yes it is a spare disk, so can we directly go and replace it without failing

Re: Bad Sectors on disk

MoS1 — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 09:14:13 GMT

It is preferred that we remove the drive from the cluster before replacing. Have you tried removing the drive via an API command or only through the GUI?

Re: Bad Sectors on disk

Ontapforrum — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 09:20:15 GMT

yes