Dell PowerVault MD1120 Optimization Manual page 25

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ POWERVAULT™ MD1XXX FAMILY SAS SOLUTION VER A02
Figure 7: Physical Disks with a Foreign State
Server Administrator displays the Import/Recover Foreign Configuration or the Import Foreign
Configuration task when the controller detects a foreign configuration. If you have an incomplete
foreign configuration which cannot be imported, using the Clear Foreign Configuration task, erases
the foreign data on the physical disks.
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