Use the information in the following table to determine which troubleshooting topics to read.
| Read... | To learn about... |
|---|---|
| "Getting technical assistance" | Getting technical assistance. |
| "Booting from system boot diskette" | Booting from diskette to recover from a lost password, configuration file errors, and some disk problems. |
| "Restarting a shut down filer" | Restarting a filer when it has shut down automatically. |
| "NVRAM problems" | How the filer handles NVRAM low battery conditions and inconsistent NVRAM contents. |
| "Volume problems" | Types of volume problems. |
| "Failed mounts and stale file handles" | How to fix mount and stale file handle problems caused by changing a volume's name. |
| "Volume name problems" | Using the rules for naming volumes, and about volume naming error messages. |
| "Disk problems" | Types of disk problems. |
| "Disk failure without a hot spare disk" | How the filer handles a disk failure when a hot spare disk is not available. |
| "Disk failure with a hot spare disk" | How the filer handles a disk failure when a hot spare disk is available. |
| "Disk errors" | Error messages the filer displays when it discovers certain disk problems. |
| "Inconsistent file system" | What to do if the filer displays a message that a file system is inconsistent. |
| "Disk operations in Maintenance mode" | Using maintenance-mode operations to correct disk problems. |
| "Configuration problems" | Booting the filer and recovering from errors in configuration files. |
| "How to reset the filer password" | Resetting the administration password for the filer. |
| "How to initialize all disks and create a new file system" | Initializing all the filer disks because you want to redeploy the filer or because Network Appliance Technical Support instructs you to do so. |
| "Network problems" | Diagnosing network problems. |
| "NFS problems" | Diagnosing NFS problems. |
| "Windows access problems" | Diagnosing problems with accessing the filer from Windows. |
| "UNIX cpio problems" | How 16-bit versions of the cpio command might cause problems when copying large files. |
| "UNIX df problems" | How the df command on some UNIX systems might report free space incorrectly. |
| "Cluster messages" | What you can do to fix cluster problems. |
| "Serious error messages" | What to do if the filer halts with a serious error message. |
Hardware problems are described in the hardware guide for your filer model. See the appropriate hardware guide for information about system LEDs; LCD error messages, if your filer has an LCD, and system start-up messages.
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