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.
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.
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?
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