No local disks found during ONTAP downgrade from 9.13 to 9.11

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Applies to

ONTAP downgrade from 9.13 to 9.11
NVMe drives model X4011WBORA3T8NTF running NA51 fw. version

Issue

ONTAP downgrade from 9.13 to 9.11
All data moved out and deleted
Started What are the steps followed to configure advanced drive partitioning from ONTAP boot menu option 9 on HA pair? to repurpouse the HA pair
The node stops with the following error messages during the procedure:

[localhost:mgr.boot.unequalDist:error]: Warning: Unequal number of disks will be used for auto-partitioning of the root aggregate on the local system and HA partner. The local system will use 7 disks but the HA partner will use 0 disks. To correct this situation, boot both controllers into maintenance mode and remove the ownership of all disks.

FWU 2nd trigger point

FWU has no post firmware update action registered.

fm_run0: no local disks found & OFW channel is not up.

All the drives shown as FAILED in maintenance mode

*> disk show -v

Local System ID: 123456789

DISK OWNER POOL SERIAL NUMBER...

---- ----- ----- -------------...

0n.0 FAILED Block ...

...

0n.23 FAILED Block

Any attempt of unfail, fails with:

*> disk unfail 0n.0

[localhost:nse.op.failed:error]: Control failure on self-encrypting drive 0n.0; security provider: Locking, authority: User1, during operation "opal_lock_unlock_data_band_sm".

Failure bytes for unfail were not written due to error 12;

[localhost:disk.encryptAccessErr:error]: Unable to restore data access on encrypting disk 0n.0; status security unknown key (0xe).

[localhost:disk.init.failure.error:error]: Drive 0n.0 failed initialization due to error 11, sense code(7 20 2 86).

If failure area has reached its capacity, it may be cleared by reloading disk firmware.

If the disk has been previously failed by RAID, the disk may need to be removed from

the failed disk registry.

with:

*> disk encrypt show 0n.0

Disk       Data Key ID                                                      Locked?

---------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- -------

0n.0       000000000000000002000000000001004ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ12345 Yes

Note: When not in advanced privilege, the output above might be stale for drives

owned by the HA partner unless it has been taken over by this node.