Lenovo ThinkServer RD330 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide - Page 158
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Chapter 4: WebBIOS Configuration Utility | Managing Configurations MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide 4.12.3.1 Foreign Configurations in Cable Pull and Drive Removal Scenarios Figure 110: Foreign Configuration Preview Screen The right panel shows the virtual drive properties of the foreign configuration. In this example, there are two RAID 1 virtual drives with 67.843 GB each. The left panel shows the drives in the foreign configuration. 4. Click Import to import this foreign configuration(s) and use it on this controller. If you click Cancel, you return to Figure 109. If one or more drives are removed from a configuration, by a cable pull or drive removal, for example, the configuration on those drives is considered a foreign configuration by the RAID controller. Use the Foreign Configuration Preview screen to import or clear the foreign configuration in each case. The import procedure and clear procedure are described in Section 4.12.3, Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration The following scenarios can occur with cable pulls or drive removals. NOTE: If you want to import the foreign configuration in any of the following scenarios, you should have all of the drives in the enclosure before you perform the import operation. Scenario #1: If all of the drives in a configuration are removed and re-inserted, the controller considers the drives to have foreign configurations. Import or clear the foreign configuration. If you select Import, automatic rebuilds will occur in redundant virtual drives. Page 158