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cxcal_18687
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Jun 21, 2011

Failing Hard Drive

Looking to shed a little more light on a suspected hard drive issue.     DataCenter Engineer said the F5 LTM has a blighting light complaining about a hard drive failure.     I don't show ...
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hooleylist
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Jun 23, 2011
That's just showing that there isn't a RAID array defined for the compact flash. I see the same thing on a working 8900: 


Sys::Raid::Disk
Name  Serial Number         Array Member  Array Status
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CF1   B85131BGBCR209131600  no            undefined
HD1   WD-WCAT18687337       yes           ok
HD2   WD-WCAT18687750       yes           ok

Which platform is this? Have you seen SOL12170:

sol12170: The BIG-IP system may use the CompactFlash card for the swap partition on some platforms

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/12000/100/sol12170.html

You could force an disk check following SOL10328. You might also try running qkview and uploading the tech.out to http://ihealth.f5.com to review the suggestions there. If you don't get anything useful there, you could open a case with F5 Support.

Aaron