I probably should also warn you that the operations I have described are data destructive (i.e. could result in loss of data/loss of OS functionality). So use at your own risk.
-----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Boyd, Patrick Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:28 AM To: [email protected]; linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: RE: clearforeignconfig not clearing foreign config Clearforeign only removes drives in foreign state. These drives are online. To get rid of this configuration you either need to delete the virtual disk or to delete all the virtual disks you can use the reset config command. -----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Paul M. Dyer Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:22 AM To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Re: clearforeignconfig not clearing foreign config Hi, I use dd and write zeros on top of the signature. That data is stored at the end of the drive, so it takes a hours get it done. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd{whatever} bs=64k Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Watts" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 10:03:52 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago Subject: clearforeignconfig not clearing foreign config How are you supposed to clear the configuration on a disk previously used on a PERC 5/i? # omconfig storage controller action=clearforeignconfig controller=0 Command successful! # omconfig storage pdisk action=clear controller=0 pdisk=0:0:1 Operation disabled. Read, action=clear # omreport storage pdisk controller=0 List of Physical Disks on Controller PERC 5/i Integrated (Embedded) Controller PERC 5/i Integrated (Embedded) ID : 0:0:0 Status : Ok Name : Physical Disk 0:0:0 State : Online Failure Predicted : No Progress : Not Applicable Bus Protocol : SAS Media : HDD Capacity : 67.75 GB (72746008576 bytes) Used RAID Disk Space : 67.75 GB (72746008576 bytes) Available RAID Disk Space : 0.00 GB (0 bytes) Hot Spare : No Vendor ID : DELL Product ID : ST373455SS Revision : S513 Serial No. : 3LQ0YQ5T Negotiated Speed : Not Available Capable Speed : Not Available Manufacture Day : 07 Manufacture Week : 18 Manufacture Year : 2005 SAS Address : 5000C50004901BC5 ID : 0:0:1 Status : Non-Critical Name : Physical Disk 0:0:1 State : Foreign Failure Predicted : No Progress : Not Applicable Bus Protocol : SAS Media : HDD Capacity : 67.75 GB (72746008576 bytes) Used RAID Disk Space : 0.00 GB (0 bytes) Available RAID Disk Space : 67.75 GB (72746008576 bytes) Hot Spare : No Vendor ID : DELL Product ID : ST373455SS Revision : S513 Serial No. : 3LQ0XWSY Negotiated Speed : Not Available Capable Speed : Not Available Manufacture Day : 07 Manufacture Week : 18 Manufacture Year : 2005 SAS Address : 5000C50004901BA1 Mark. -- Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS Senior Systems Engineer, Managed Services Manpower www.QinetiQ.com QinetiQ - Delivering customer-focused solutions GPG Key: http://www.linux-corner.info/mwatts.gpg _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
