HD listed as Foreign on the PERC 5/i controller

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

You can import or clear the foreign configuration on the controller page
or by using one of the omconfig storage controller commands.

 

From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:46 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: HD listed as Foreign on the PERC 5/i controller

 

Howdy,

 

I have 6 SAS drives on a 2950 connected to the PERC 5/i.

 

9 months ago the system was setup by assigning 5 of the drives as a
single virtual disk and the last drive as a global hot spare.

 

The other day, the hd in slot 2 went offline (amber light). I didn't
have OpenManage installed at the time and all I saw in the IPMI log was
" Drive Slot #0x82 | Drive Fault | Asserted".

 

Dell sent me a replacement drive. I hot swapped the bad drive with the
new one and after much blinking, all the lights went green.

 

A day later, the drive in slot 1 (#0x81) reported in the ipmi log "
Drive Slot #0x81 | Drive Fault | Asserted".

 

This time I installed OpenManage and I see the drive's state listed as
"Foreign". The only options available (via OpenManage and rebooting and
using RAID utility) are blink and unblink.

 

I'm working with Dell on this but wanted to see if anyone has
experienced anything similar?

 

Thanks, Mike

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Mike Hanby

Information Systems Specialist II

School of Engineering Dean's Office

University of Alabama at Birmingham

 

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