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How to troubleshoot during part replacement receiving message "WARNING: there do not appear to be any disks attached to the system"

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Applies to

  • AFF Systems
  • FAS Systems
  • ONTAP 9
  • Storage

Description

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Messages

While attempting to boot an AFF or FAS system the following messages might appear:

WARNING: 0 disks found!

Storage Adapters found:
2 Fibre Channel Storage Adapters found!
4 SAS Adapters found!
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:
2 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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