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I was just thinking to break the pins off of my $15 fanout cable, rather than maiming the hard drives. But Kapton tape is a good idea and I have some on hand, so I might do that if I can't figure out how to slip a knife under these little metal fingers. Thanks!

This thread came up when I was searching for a similar problem with my new stack of HGST 7K6000 SAS drives, which wouldn't spin up when used with my LSI HBA and a SFF-8087-to-SFF-8482 fanout cable. I'm recording my solution here in case it helps someone else. I was starting down similar...