Hello,

I have a very old R630 at a remote office that was running low on space. There was one free slot so I shipped a disk that had been used elsewhere that matched the specs of the disks already in the RAID group. It is now installed and the state shows as "Foreign". In reading up on it, I know I can clear the Foreign configuration but have issues/questions that I hope someone can help with!

First: in the IDRAC8 Express GUI interface, when I browse to Controllers, Setup, Foreign Configuration, I see a VIRTUAL disk listed as "Foreign". I see nothing when I expand it to associate this with the Foreign physical disk, although I'm 99% sure they are basically referring to the same thing - but that lack of clarity concerns me, I could be missing something. We do have a live virtual disk of course and I don't want to affect it! Also, not that I'm importing it, but it says the state after import would be "failed" - which I don't know if that means a problem or not.

Second, I tried the racadm approach and got an error message:

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ERROR: STOR099 : Unable to find the FQDD <FQDD> because an invalid FQDD is entered or an operation is pending on the specified FQDD. Do the following and then retry the operation:

 1) Make sure the FQDD entered is valid.
 2) Make sure an operation is not pending on the FQDD identified in the message.
For more information refer to the RACADM Command Line Reference Guide.

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I literally copied/pasted the FQDD from the results of the "storage get pdisks -o -p state" command, so I believe it's valid. I show no pending tasks.

Any suggestions? This is IDRAC8 2.61.60.60.