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Both HA controllers repeat rebooting with all SAS ports offline right away of boot up

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
    • disk.checksum.offlineAdapter

Issue

Controller boot failure with below errors:

[localhost:disk.checksum.offlineAdapter:error]: Adapter 0a taken offline due to checksum verification failure on multiple disks.

[localhost:disk.checksum.offlineAdapter:error]: Adapter 0b taken offline due to checksum verification failure on multiple disks.

[localhost:config.noPartnerDisks:CRITICAL]: No disks were detected for the partner; this node will be unable to takeover correctly

If all SAS adapters are offlined, the following additional errors will be seen:

WARNING: 0 disks found!

Storage Adapters found:
0 Fibre Channel Storage Adapters found!
2 SAS Adapters found!
Jun 29 17:20:39 [cluster1-01:cf.fm.noMBDisksOrIc:error]: Could not find the local mailbox disks. Could not determine the firmware state of the partner through the HA interconnect.
0 Parallel SCSI Storage Adapters found!
0 ATA Adapters found!

Select option 4 from the boot menu to choose disks for the root volume and spare core space.
Target Adapters found:
4 Fibre Channel Target Adapters found!
0 iSCSI Target Adapters found!

WARNING: there do not appear to be any disks attached to the system.
No root volume found.
Rebooting... (press ctrl-c during boot to break reboot loop)
 

 

 

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