adding disk to PE2950 with Perc 5/i

[Marc Wiatrowski]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 13:32 +0000, Campbell McLeay wrote:
> Oops
> 
> sorry, that should be 'can't see any way of clearing the config on it'
> 
> Campbell
> > Hi Nick,
> >
> > Thanks (and apologies for accidentally posting the same message twice!)
> > The disk appears via the OMSA web utility as a foreign disk, and I can 
> > see any way of clearing the config on it (I can't do this via the bios 
> > utility on a test machine either). Do you know if this can be done via 
> > the OMSA software? Or does it have to be done via controller bios? I 
> > can't find a way of removing the 'foreign' config. I would rather not 
> > have to reboot the machine if possible to add this disk.
> >

This what you are looking for?

$ omconfig storage controller controller=X action=clearforeignconfig

marc