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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: WebBIOS Configuration Utility | Managing Configurations
Figure 149: Foreign Configuration Preview Dialog
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 these foreign configurations and use them on this controller.
If you click Cancel, you return to the dialog shown in Figure 148 .
4.14.3.1 Foreign Configurations
in Cable Pull and Drive Removal
Scenarios 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 dialog to import or clear the foreign
configuration in each case. The import procedure and clear procedure are described in
Section 4.14.3, Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration .
The following scenarios can occur with cable pulls or drive removals.
NOTE: 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.