3431763 - Failure to Start HANA DB in Scale-out Mode

Following some BIOS modifications and the stop/start of HANA DB via the operating system on Scale-out, the error below was encountered:

[337745]{-1}[-1/-1] 2023-12-01 23:46:57.404346 i assign           MasterFileChecker.cpp(00089) : checking 2 master lock file(s) ...
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[104440]{-1}[9/-1] 2023-12-02 01:00:46.829695 e assign           TREXNameServer.cpp(02184) : assign failed with ltt exception: exception 7100005: Error while accessing /usr/sap/ABC/SYS/global/hdb/mdc/databases.lst rc=5: Input/output error
    Error while accessing /usr/sap/ABC/SYS/global/hdb/mdc/databases.lst rc=5: Input/output error

The databases.lst file under the operating system has been checked and found to exist with a size of 0. Attempts to rename and copy/modify the databases.lst also from another host have not resolved the issue.

SAP HANA DB Version 2.0

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