adding disk to PE2950 with Perc 5/i

[Nick_Parrott at Dell.com]

Hi Campbell,

You should be able to do this in OMSA (although in some of the earlier
versions of both OMSA and the PERC 5 firmware, I know that the option
simply isn't there..) - Try looking here;

Highlight the PERC 5
Click on the "Information/Configuration" link
Check for "foreign" related options in the drop down

If not, and you cannot find the option elsewhere to clear/import a
foreign config, you need to update OMSA and/or PERC 5 fw.

In PERC BIOS, it's always available, hit F2 while highlighting the
controller, go to Foreign Config > Clear / Import

Regards,

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: Campbell McLeay [mailto:campbell.mcleay at hostway.co.uk] 
Sent: 19 December 2007 13:11
To: Parrott, Nick
Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: adding disk to PE2950 with Perc 5/i

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.

Regards,

Campbell

Nick_Parrott at dell.com wrote:
> Simple, create a RAID 0 on the disk.. Job done
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Campbell McLeay
> Sent: 18 December 2007 17:06
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: adding disk to PE2950 with Perc 5/i
>
> Hi,
>
> We have a poweredge 2950, with a perc 5/i that is configured with an 
> existing RAID 5 array with 5 physical disks in it (so there is one
spare
>
> slot on the disk bays). We want to put another disk in the spare slot 
> and configure it in 'JBOD' mode, i.e., just as a plain disk, not part
of
>
> any existing array. We have tried (in a test environment) , but the
Perc
>
> firmware only allows the disk to be added as a hot spare to an
existing 
> array. Does anyone know if it is possible to add a disk in this way?
>
> Regards,
>
> Campbell
>
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