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Figure 7: Physical Disk with a Foreign State 
 
 
The Server Administrator displays 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.