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How to import or reset Foreign status
Hello,
I accidentally pulled out 3 drives from a raid 5 and now we have drives showing "Foreign" status.
How can I get these drives back online with out LOSING the existing data.
Please help.
Thanks
theflash1932
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October 11th, 2017 13:00
You need to IMPORT the foreign configuration, then you need to not do that again :)
Mari0J01
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October 11th, 2017 13:00
Also,
This happened on a Dell Power Edge R710
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Mari0J01
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October 11th, 2017 14:00
Yes, that did the trick,, Sometimes something as simple as a label can prevent disaster!
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chandoshi
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January 15th, 2020 12:00
I have a similar issue. I inserted 2 new hard drive for failed RAID 10. RAID 10 is not showing in list of RAIDS anymore. I have a separate RAID for OS and that is showing up as raid.
When I view them as drive they show as RAID 10 Span1 Physical drive(2) and Virtual drive(1) with Foreign status. Missing Span 0. The 2 new drive are foreign and not part of RAID. When I try to import the raid drives it will not import. How do rebuild this raid. Please help