Dell RAID Perc 5/i

[James McDonald]

David A. Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Anyone familiar with this beast?  It's giving me a hard time.
>
> We wanted to put in a bigger disk, so shut it down and swapped out an
> old disk with a new one.
>
> Says disk is foreign and array is degraded.  Nothing we did gave us
> any better, all operations attempted on the disk failed, although the
> disk is "seen".
>
> Put the old disk back in.  Ditto -- disk is foreign, and doing what
> the manual tells us to do gives us nothing.  Everything fails for both
> disks.  Can't add the disk back in, can't add the new disk, and
> believe it or not, although this is part of a RAID 5 array (one of 4
> disks), we can't even boot.
>
> WTFO?
>
> Any ideas welcome.
>
> David A. Bandel
>   
Sorry should have read better.

My config was RAID 1 and it doesn't appear to be the same issue you had.

Another idea.

The controller is picking up old controller markings from the new disk. 
(you know how you can blow a controller , replace and it will pick up 
the config off the disks and configure itself back to the old 
controllers settings).

Is there any way of scrubbing the disk of it's previous array memberships?