I have a server that crashed (don't know why) and it lost access to most of its 24 drives. The server needed a full power cycle to make the disks show up again, except one disk needed a second go (was unplugged and reinserted). Now, while some of the virtual disks went into background initialization, one virtual disk had to rebuild a mirrored disk, and one virtual disk completely lost one of its mirrored disks (the disk that was removed and reinserted, but it was lost before the removal). When I say lost, the raid controller could not see the disk at all.
Now, with the physical disk visible (disk 0:12), can see it is now gone into the Foreign state. And I can't do anything about it (or so it seems). This is my list of tools:
- iDRAC
- OMSA
- omconfig/omreport
- MegaCLI
The controller is an PERC H710P Mini (Embedded)
in a Dell R720xd server.
I tried clearing the foreign configuration this way:
- iDRAC: Does not see any foreign configuration on the controller even though it displays the physical disk as foreign.
- OMSA: When I try to open Foreign Configuration options page, it claims there are no foreign configurations. But according to physical disk view, disk 12 is foreign.
omconfig storage controller action=clearforeignconfig controller=0
fails after like 1-2 minutes blocking IO with:Failure!
omconfig storage pdisk action=clear controller=0 pdisk=0:12
fails fast withOperation not supported. Read, action=clear
MegaCli64 -CfgForeign -Scan -aAll
reports after 1-2 minutesThere are 1 foreign configuration(s) on controller 0.
MegaCli64 -CfgForeign -Clear -a0
fails after 1-2 minutes withFailed to clear Foreign configuration on controller 0.
, exit code 0x01.
How can I get this disk operational again? I must have missed something...