I tried the Dell branded SAS drives in the PowerEdge T420 + LSI 9211-8i IT setup and they worked so that suggests the 9211-8i IT card is OK.
I tried bypassing the backplane of the T420 by getting a cable that can connect two drives directly to one port of the 9211-8i. That also didn't work...
I've messed with SAS cards and drives some in the past but I'm not super experienced at it.
So, I got my hands on some 10TB HGST drives. The objective is to wipe the data on the drives, verify that they are wiped, and have a log of both the wipe and verification, and then I can do whatever with...
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