Foreign Managed disk

I factory reset a SC4020 using the serial port, and now the drives are stuck in ManagedForeign state. They were fine on this system before the factory reset. 

I've tried:

- disk clobber 1 ## for the first disk

- disk UnManage 1

- disk Manage 1

- disk set 1 3 Managed 

- disk set 1 3 3 ## ManagedForeign has a value of 4, so I assumed 3 would work. The same with 2 1 0

(all disk set fail with "Set Failure, Attribute is system write only")

- all the above with -systemwriteonly at the end

- disk unclobberall

- disk RekeyDisk 1

- reset the system to factory settings again

The Storage Manager Client is asking to create the Assigned disk folder (after submiting the license), I see the drives in there, but I cannot assign them to the folder, as they are marked as Foreign (Requested disk(s) must be unassigned for this operation, found assigned disk [index=1] in the request)

What should I do to move these drives from ManagedForeign to Unmanaged or Managed? 

The system is out of warranty. 

Hi,

To move drives from ManageForeign to other status, you can try these steps, a few options to try:

Option 1:

1. Unmanage the disks.

   • "disk unmanage where ManagementDiscipline ManagedForeign"

2. Manage in all the disks using DSM.

3. Start a restripe and monitor until complete.
    

Option 2:

1. Relabel the drive.

   • "disk savelabel"

2. Review to ensure that the labels are correct.

   • "disk showlabel"

3. Unmanage the drives to change from "ManagedForeign" to "Unassigned."

   • "disk unmanage <diskIndex>"

4. Manage in all the disks using DSM.

5. Start a restripe and monitor until complete.

Thank you Joey. disk unmanage works on a fully working system, when the system is not initialize however, I get an error saying that the command didn't execute (ReadOnly something). I got it working somehow, I don't remeber how. I think I changed the DesiredManagementDiscipline (option 82) to Unmanaged + lots of resets, I really don't know how I did it, but in the end it worked, disk were seen as Unmanaged. So now the system is stable. 

Hi,

Thank you for the feedback update.