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disk.init.badSectorSize

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when a disk reports a sector size that does not match the drive qualification table.

Corrective Action

Replace the disk.

Syslog Message

Disk %s has an unexpected sector size (%d bytes) and cannot be used.

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the disk.
sector_size (INT): Invalid sector size.

disk.init.err.capacityFlash

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when a capacity-optimized flash solid-state drive (SSD) is detected by a node that does not support this type of SSD.

Corrective Action

Remove the disk from the system.

Syslog Message

Disk %s cannot be used on a node that does not support capacity-optimized flash.

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the disk.

disk.init.err.flashOptimized

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when a hard disk drive (HDD) is detected by a node configured with the All-Flash Optimized personality. With this personality, only solid-state drives (SSD) can be used.

Corrective Action

Remove the disk from the system.

Syslog Message

Disk %s cannot be used on a node configured as All-Flash Optimized.

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the disk.

disk.init.err.unsupp.shelf

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when an unsupported NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) is discovered in an external NVMe shelf. This NVMe SSD is only supported as an internal drive on the AFF A800 system.

Corrective Action

Remove the drive from the external NVMe shelf.

Syslog Message

Drive %s cannot be used in an external NVMe shelf.

Parameters

disk_name (STRING): Name of the SSD.
disk_information (STRING): Formatted information about the SSD. This includes the drive's vendor, model, firmware revision, and serial number.

disk.init.err.unsupported

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when an unsupported disk is detected on a node.

Corrective Action

Remove the disk from the system.

Syslog Message

Disk %s is not recognized as a supported disk and cannot be used on this node.

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the disk.

disk.init.err.zns

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when a zoned namespace solid-state drive (SSD-ZNS) is detected by a node that does not support this type of SSD.

Corrective Action

Remove the disk from the system.

Syslog Message

Disk "%s" cannot be used on a node that does not support SSD-ZNS disks.

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the disk.

disk.init.error.capacity

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when a disk reports an unexpected capacity.

Corrective Action

Replace the disk.

Syslog Message

Disk %s has an unexpected capacity (%llu sectors) and cannot be used. Replace it.

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the disk.
lastSector (LONGINT): Last sector of the disk.
productID (STRING): Product name of the disk.

disk.init.error.serialno

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when the inquiry command does not return a valid serial number or device ID for the device. The device is failed during initialization.

Corrective Action

Replace the disk.

Syslog Message

Serial number or device ID not available for %s.

Parameters

disk_name (STRING): Disk name.
page_code (INT): Page code that was sent.
error_pcode (INT): Page code received in error.

disk.init.failure.error

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when a drive fails initialization. For NVMe drives, the returned error information is translated into the SCSI equivalent.

Corrective Action

Replace the drive.

Syslog Message

Drive %s failed initialization due to error %d, sense code(%x %x %x %x).

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the drive.
errorCode (INT): Internal E_SCSI return code.
sense_key (INTHEX): Sense key.
sense_code (INTHEX): Additional sense code.
qualifier (INTHEX): Additional sense code qualifier.
fru_failed (INTHEX): FRU code.

disk.init.failure.spinup

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when a disk cannot spin up during initialization. The disk is marked as failed and is not used.

Corrective Action

Removed the disk from the system.

Syslog Message

Disk %s has failed to spin up and cannot be used. Replace it with a new drive.

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the disk.

disk.init.failureBytes

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when the system discovers a previously failed disk. The system will not use the disk and it should be replaced.

Corrective Action

Replace the failed disk.

Syslog Message

Failed disk %s detected during disk initialization.

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the disk.

disk.init.invalidDDR

Severity

INFORMATIONAL

Description

This message occurs when a disk contains a Dynamic Drive Recognition (DDR) label entry that is not for this disk. The system rewrites the DDR label with proper values.

Corrective Action

(None).

Syslog Message

Disk %s has an invalid DDR entry. DDR label will be corrected and rewritten automatically.

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the disk.
vendorID (STRING): Vendor name of the disk.
productID (STRING): Product name of the disk.

disk.init.prottype.incompat

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when a hard disk drive (HDD) has a protection type enabled that is not supported. Protection type is a disk option that determines how information is physically saved on the disk.

Corrective Action

Remove the disk from the system.

Syslog Message

Disk %s has protection type %x enabled and cannot be used. %s

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the disk.
protType (INTHEX): Value indicating the version of the enabled protection type.
disk_information (STRING): Formatted information about the disk. This includes the disk's vendor, model, firmware revision, and serial number.

disk.init.recognizedDDR

Severity

INFORMATIONAL

Description

This message occurs when a Dynamic Drive Recognition (DDR) label on a drive with dynamically qualified data is properly updated with aliased data.

Corrective Action

(None).

Syslog Message

Disk %s has been updated with the proper drive name alias. The DDR label will be rewritten automatically.

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the disk.
vendorID (STRING): Vendor name of the disk.
productID (STRING): Product name of the disk.

disk.init.unknownDisk

Severity

ERROR

Description

This message occurs when a unique identifier cannot be created for a disk due to internal disk problems.

Corrective Action

The disk needs to be replaced, remove it from the system.

Syslog Message

Unable to identify disk %s.

Parameters

diskName (STRING): Name of the disk.