Seatools can be run under Windows or Linux - or as a bootable USB drive.
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You're going to have to connect the drives to either a Windows or Linux machine to run this obviously. What SAS card are you using?
Just scan the drives under the utility, select the drive, choose the 'Advanced'...
Yes, I got them all working. First issue was removing the protection using the Seatools utility and entering the PSID which is printed on the front of the drive. Then changed the the sector size from 520 bytes to 512 bytes and finally reformatted all the drives. They then all showed up properly...
I am in exactly the same position as you - although I have some extra elements. I bought some X417A-R6 drives which are NetApp NSE - but I also have a NetApp FAS2240 dual controller and DS2246 disk shelf that I added the drives too. It just shows them as 'Failed' and alerts about disk encryption...
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