Self-Test Failure During a Connect Sequence

If the error “cfgadm: Hardware specific failure: connect failed: firmware operation error” is displayed during a DR connect sequence, remove the board from the system as soon as possible. The board has failed self-test, and removing the board avoids possible reconfiguration errors that can occur during the next reboot.

If you want to immediately retry the failed operation, you must first remove and reinsert the board, because the board status does not allow further operations.