Set Foreign Disk Drive to Native

A disk drive is considered to be native when it is a part of the storage subsystem’s array configuration. A disk drive is considered to be foreign when it does not belong to the storage subsystem’s array configuration or when it fails to be imported with the disk drives of an array that are transferred to a new storage subsystem. The latter failure creates an incomplete array on the new storage subsystem.

Run this command to add the missing (foreign) disk drives back into their original array and to make them part of the new storage subsystem array configuration of the new storage subsystem.

Use this operation for emergency recovery only: when one or more disk drives need to be changed from a foreign disk drive status and returned to a native status within their original array.


Attention:

Possible data corruption or data loss – Using this command for reasons other than what is stated previously might result in data loss without notification.

Syntax

set (drive [enclosureID, slotID] | allDrives) toNative

Parameters
Parameter Description
drive The enclosure and the slot where the disk drive resides. Enclosure ID values are 0 to 99. Slot ID values are 1 to 32. Enclose the enclosure ID values and the slot ID values in square brackets ([ ]).
allDrives The setting to select all of the disk drives.
Minimum Firmware Level

7.10