Foreign Physical Disk Has Inconsistent Configuration

What Caused the Problem?

A newly inserted physical disk has configuration information that indicates that it is a member of an existing complete disk group. The Recovery Guru Details area provides specific information you will need as you follow the recovery steps.

Caution: Electronic discharge can damage sensitive components. Always use proper antistatic protection when handling components. Touching components without using a proper ground may damage the equipment.

Important Notes

This problem does not affect the performance of the native disk group.
To resolve this problem, you will need to initialize the foreign physical disk or remove it from the storage array. Follow the recovery steps below to fix the problem.
You can remove the physical disk while the storage array is receiving I/O.

Recovery Steps

Refer to the Details area to find which physical disk slot is reporting the problem.

If...	Then...
You want to retain the data on the foreign physical disk	Remove the foreign physical disk from the system and return it to the storage array that from which it was removed. Go to step 4.
You do NOT want to retain the data on the foreign physical disk (you want the physical disk to become an Unassigned physical disk in this storage array)	Go to step 2.

Open a Command Prompt, and type the following command:

SMcli -n <storageArray_name>;

where storageArray_name is the name of the storage array listed in the Details area.

Note: If you receive an error from this command, change your working directory to the directory that contains the SMcli executable.

Execute the following command in order to initialize the physical disk:

start physicalDisk [enclosure_ID,slot_ID] initialize;

where enclosure_id is the enclosure ID for the enclosure where the physical disk resides and slot_ID is the slot position within the enclosure. This is the physical disk that is shown in the Details area.

Note: The commands above are case-sensitive, and must be entered exactly as shown.

When the initialization completes, the physical disk will be an Optimal, Unassigned physical disk.

4 Click Recheck to rerun the Recovery Guru. The failure should no longer appear in the Summary area. If the failure appears again, contact your technical support representative.

Note: Additional information on this issue may be available. Please visit the Dell support website at support.dell.com and select your product model. Choose "troubleshooting" as your tool option, then search by this procedure title.