I have 4 300G disks in a RAID5 configuration on a Dell Poweredge 2950 with PERC 5/i. I'm trying to replace one of the disks (it failed) with a disk from another identical server.
I got a warning that the disk was foreign, but I cleared the foreign config. Now, however, I can't actually add the new disk to the RAID. It's visible under PDs, but under the VD menu the disk is listed as missing.
How do I get the VD to recognize and add the new disk?
Best Answer
I think you will find that this cannot be done from the RAID utility and must be performed using Dell OpenManage. If you dont want to install this you can download a LiveCD and boot to it to perform this operation.
http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/