Disk not recognized after replacement
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- FAS/AFF
- DS460C
Issue
- Drive in DS460C shelf 1, slot 16 reported as faulty on a new DS460-12 installation.
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Faulty drive was swapped to slot 18 but it failed to come online; but the swapped drive in slot 16 came online.
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The drive at slot 18 was replaced but it failed to come online.
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Drive was then moved to slot 52 an empty slot, issue followed the slot.
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A second replacement drive was installed at slot 52 but that was also bypassed.
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Drive was moved again to slot 59 — issue persisted; drive remained bypassed on both SAS paths (A and B), making it completely inaccessible to storage controllers
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Shelf 1 reported CRITICAL enclosure status with drive 59 showing
BYPASSED A, BYPASSED B -
The drive manager was unable to activate the drives in any slot, as confirmed by shelf logs from both IOM A and IOM B modules
- IOM module ddump logs showed no faults on the IOMs themselves — ruling out IOM hardware failure
