Bug ID 528987: Benign warning during formatting installation

Last Modified: Jul 18, 2026

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP All(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.4, 11.5.4 hf1, 11.5.4 hf2, 11.5.4 hf3, 11.5.4 hf4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0, 11.6.0 hf1, 11.6.0 hf2, 11.6.0 hf3, 11.6.0 hf4, 11.6.0 hf5, 11.6.0 hf6, 11.6.0 hf7, 11.6.0 hf8

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.1

Opened: Jun 19, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

The system posts a benign warning during formatting installation: warning: array conf_write could not find data disk.

Impact

This is a benign error message that does not indicate an issue with the system. You can safely ignore it.

Conditions

This occurs during formatting installation.

Workaround

None needed. This is a cosmetic message.

Fix Information

This benign warning during formatting installation has been eliminated: warning: array conf_write could not find data disk.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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