HD listed as Foreign on the PERC 5/i controller

[Mike Hanby]

Thanks for the information, I checked the firmware, and it is up to
date. Dell support got back with me and since the drive wasn't part of
the array, the resolution was a simple matter of using the OpenManage
web interface to clear the foreign config followed by assigning the
drive as the Global Hot Spare.

 

He also had me run the Dell diags on that drive and it passed the tests.

 

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From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of
Nick_Parrott at dell.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 12:20
To: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: HD listed as Foreign on the PERC 5/i controller

 

This is likely to be a cosmetic issue, understandably it's causing a
problem, but unlikely to be 2 faulty disks in such a short time - I'd
immediatley check firmware for the PERC and the SAS drives

 

omconfig storage controller action=importforeignconfig controller=id

 

(your PERC 5/I is probably controller 0, use 

 

omreport storage controller=id 

 

to view the controller info and verify this)

 

From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of
Patrick_Boyd at dell.com
Sent: 07 November 2007 16:54
To: mhanby at uab.edu; linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: RE: HD listed as Foreign on the PERC 5/i controller

 

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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