When you connect a RAID volume to the HBA, and that volume was created outside of the HBA or was previously connected to a different HBA, the HBA considers this volume to be a foreign RAID volume. To protect data, the foreign RAID volume is unusable by the operating system or system boot loader until you manually activate it. You must manually activate a volume in the following situations:
You plan to move the physical disks that make up a hardware RAID volume from one system to another system with the HBA.
You are replacing an existing HBA that is managing hardware RAID volumes with a new HBA.
Based on your configuration, use the appropriate utility to manually activate a RAID volume:
If the HBA is installed in a SPARC System - Use the FCode utility. See Activating a Volume (SPARC).
If the HBA is installed in an x86 System - Use the BIOS Configuration utility. See Activating a Volume (x86).
From an operating system (OS) - Use the SAS2IRCU utility. See Activating a Volume (From an OS).