NetApp disk failed initialization due to error 5.

Hmmm... just reseat the disk.

Here is the list of things to check:

1) disk show <disk ID>  : Do you see no owner information. In this case, there is no ownership information.

 disk show 0a.10.2
  DISK       OWNER                      POOL   SERIAL NUMBER         HOME 
------------ -------------              -----  -------------         ------------- 

 disk show 0a.10.9
  DISK       OWNER                      POOL   SERIAL NUMBER         HOME 
------------ -------------              -----  -------------         -------------


2) scsi capacity <disk id> : Do you see capacity information
 *> scsi capacity 3a.10.9
      1172123568 blocks x 512 bytes/blk = 600127266816 bytes

3) sysconfig shows the disk has failed.


These are indicators that the system could not take ownership of the disk. You can try a re-seat of the disk.

A reseat of the disk did the trick in my case.