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how to fail a disk manually in FAS 3140

Afridi
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Hi,

  i need to fail a spare disk explicitly and then want to remove from sysytem .  i tried the internet and get one command

DISK FAIL x.x.x.x but it give me error:"disk fail 4b.01.15 : Disk 4b.01.15 is not a file sytem disk". one thing that partner have taken over the other controller

 

 

plz guide 

 

 

Reagrds

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Ontapforrum
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You don't need to fail a 'spare' disk (Just remove 'ownership'). "Fail" only applies to 'File-system' disk.

 

Just follow these steps:
https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMM1277794/html/smg/GUID-5025772D-C3D0-4948-B727-6E511CD0EDE7.html

 

Regarding taken-over event, check the console messages , there should be sufficient warnings for this turn of event.

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