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January 25th, 2010 04:00
PE2950 Adding SATA disk live
Hi,
I inserted a 500Gb SATA disk to a running PE2950 just to se if it was discovered by the PE and reported as available storage without rebooting. The PE has already two 80Gb SAS disks and I inserted the SATA disk in one of the remaining free drive bays using a Dell drive frame. The new drive's activity LEDs came on but vmware does not report any new storage available after rescanning.
Do I need to reboot the PE in order to get the drive recognized (despite that its LEDs are 'normal') or is it an other way to get this inserted drive to be recognized..?
Thanks for comments
tor
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grm139
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January 25th, 2010 06:00
On the PERC BIOS, on the configuration screen place the cursor on the root of the configuration tree and hit F2. This will show you the available options and clearing the foreign configuration should be one of them.
grm139
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January 25th, 2010 06:00
If you have a PERC controller you need to create a RAID volume, the PERC controller will not show physical disks to the OS. If you have a management application to create the RAID volume from the OS, you do not need to reboot.
If you have a SAS controller, there is a problem; a reboot may fix it but the new disk should show ready to use.
If the disk is not new (i.e.: has a previous RAID configurations), it will be marked as foreign and it will not be available for use until you clean the foreign configuration flag. This can be done from a management application on the OS (i.e.: OMSA) or from the BIOS configuration utility.
bushtor
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January 25th, 2010 06:00
I moved the virtual machines over to another host, and rebooted.
The Dell diag showed me that the new drive was attached to SATA-0, but I found no place in BIOS to actually clean its foreign config flag etc and make it available. Where do I find that?
regards Tor