Can't reset foreign drive in Open Manage

[Ken Wahl]

Patrick,

Thank you!  --  I hadn't noticed the "Information/Configuration"  
option under the Properties tab is deselected by default when the  
controller is selected (interestingly, the 'Health' option appears  
and takes priority).  Your information made me look much more  
carefully at the tiny lettering elsewhere on the screen.

I now have the drive online -- and my adrenaline level is back to  
normal.

Can you tell me how to unmount the drive, without creating the  
"foreign" condition again?  I tried "reconfigure" but I'm getting a  
"Virtual disk 1 reconfigure error."  And there's no offline option.   
It's a single disk, RAID 0, which I wanted to use as an offsite  
backup for some critical files.  I'd like to be able to insert &  
remove the drive for an occasional update without having to restart  
the system, and without compromising the disk content.

Thanks,

Ken


On Sep 19, 2007, at 12:23 PM, <Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com>  
<Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com> wrote:

> "Clear Foreign Configuration" or Import are options under the
> controller. They aren't on the Physical Disk page.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Ken Wahl
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:55 PM
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> Subject: Can't reset foreign drive in Open Manage
>
> Does anyone know how to reset a SAS drive labeled as "foreign" if the
> option isn't appearing in the Open Manage GUI?  All I'm getting are
> "blink" options in the pulldown menu -- nothing else.
>
> The only way the disk is identified is by the PERC 5/i controller and
> bay number:  ID 1:0:7.  It's not appearing in RedHat 4 as /dev/sdb.
>
> Diagnostics  shows there's nothing wrong with the drive or
> controller.  I just can't regain access to it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
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