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Drive reporting failed or broken due to disk format being set to 512B

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Drive bytes per sector (BPS)
  • SAS HDD
  • SAS SSD
  • NVMe SSD

Issue

When reviewing the output of the nodeshell command sysconfig -a,  a disk shows "Failed" and "512B/sect" (512 BPS).
 
20.0 : NETAPP   X447_S1635800ATD NA03 762.8GB 520B/sect
20.0 : NETAPP   X447_S1635800ATD NA03 762.8GB 512B/sect (Failed)

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