I bought some Toshiba 4TB SAS drives, and the picture showed regular Toshiba drives with normal labels, but I got the following:
When placed in my external bay connected to a LSI 9300-8e, I get enough connection to read the basic drive information (4K physical sectors, total LBA, etc.), but when I try to do anything at all that reads or writes data, it fails with a varying error (device not ready, device disconnected, etc.). The HBA, cables, and external bay work fine with every other disk I have, and have been working for months with no configuration changes, so, it's the disk. I have other 4K sector drives that work fine in this machine.
Is there any hope that I can get the disk to work, or should I just return them as "not as advertised"? I never would have purchased the drives if I had seen "NetApp" anywhere in the auction listing.
When placed in my external bay connected to a LSI 9300-8e, I get enough connection to read the basic drive information (4K physical sectors, total LBA, etc.), but when I try to do anything at all that reads or writes data, it fails with a varying error (device not ready, device disconnected, etc.). The HBA, cables, and external bay work fine with every other disk I have, and have been working for months with no configuration changes, so, it's the disk. I have other 4K sector drives that work fine in this machine.
Is there any hope that I can get the disk to work, or should I just return them as "not as advertised"? I never would have purchased the drives if I had seen "NetApp" anywhere in the auction listing.
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