Can't reset foreign drive in Open Manage

[Michael E Brown]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:55:12AM -0700, Ken Wahl wrote:
> 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.

You should be able to reboot and use the controller BIOS to reset the
foreign disks. The way that OM storage mgmt is (mis?)designed, it will
basically not ever touch a foreign disk.

> 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.

An oddity for sure. I have in the past brought this up as a limitation
to the OM team. You might talk to support and get them to open an issue
because, for instance, if you have a machine like this in a datacenter
across the country, you would have a very hard time fixing this unless
you have eg. a DRAC card.
--
Michael