Can't reset foreign drive in Open Manage

[Ken Wahl]

Michael,
Actually Patrick's clue that OM 5 has the foreign reset or import  
options under the controller menu enabled me to get the disk online  
without rebooting.  I do think the option should be in the physical  
disk line, where the disk is labeled as foreign, and where the yellow  
"warning" triangle appears.  But I guess I shouldn't complain too  
much, since it sounds like older versions of OM didn't even have this  
capability.
Ken



On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Michael E Brown wrote:

> 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

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