The disks are Seagate ST3300657SS which are supposed to work with this LSI based card. They appear to be formatted to 520 rather 512 bytes per sector. Not new, so they could have been formatted to that from an original format of 512, I don't know.
They are listed as unsupported (Drive: Not Supported), by 'megacli PDList -aALL'.
I tried putting them in JBOD mode, but that would not work either: Configuring JBOD with a LSI 2208 controller — Lucid Solutions
> megacli PDMakeJBOD -PhysDrv[252:1,252:2,252:3,252:4] -a0
Adapter: 0: Failed to change PD state at EnclId-252 SlotId-1.
Exit Code: 0x01
My thinking was to put them in JBOD mode then do a low-level format to 512 bytes per sector. Does anyone know how this can be done?
Here is what PDList outputs for drive 3, for example:
Enclosure Device ID: 252
Slot Number: 3
Enclosure position: N/A
Device Id: 15
WWN: 5000C500472B3778
Sequence Number: 1
Media Error Count: 0
Other Error Count: 0
Predictive Failure Count: 0
Last Predictive Failure Event Seq Number: 0
PD Type: SAS
Raw Size: 0 KB [0x22314357 Sectors]
Non Coerced Size: 0 KB [0x2221825b Sectors]
Coerced Size: 0 KB [0x220b1800 Sectors]
Sector Size: 520
Logical Sector Size: 520
Physical Sector Size: 520
Firmware state: Unconfigured(good), Spun Up
Device Firmware Level: GF0B
Shield Counter: 0
Successful diagnostics completion on : N/A
SAS Address(0): 0x5000c500472b3779
SAS Address(1): 0x0
Connected Port Number: 0(path0)
Inquiry Data: SEAGATE ST3300657SS GF0B6SJ41KJE11324D1
FDE Capable: Not Capable
FDE Enable: Disable
Secured: Unsecured
Locked: Unlocked
Needs EKM Attention: No
Foreign State: None
Device Speed: Unknown
Link Speed: Unknown
Media Type: Hard Disk Device
Drive: Not Supported
Drive Temperature : N/A
PI Eligibility: No
Drive is formatted for PI information: No
PI: No PI
Port-0 :
Port status: Active
Port's Linkspeed: Unknown
Port-1 :
Port status: Active
Port's Linkspeed: Unknown
Drive has flagged a S.M.A.R.T alert : No
They are listed as unsupported (Drive: Not Supported), by 'megacli PDList -aALL'.
I tried putting them in JBOD mode, but that would not work either: Configuring JBOD with a LSI 2208 controller — Lucid Solutions
> megacli PDMakeJBOD -PhysDrv[252:1,252:2,252:3,252:4] -a0
Adapter: 0: Failed to change PD state at EnclId-252 SlotId-1.
Exit Code: 0x01
My thinking was to put them in JBOD mode then do a low-level format to 512 bytes per sector. Does anyone know how this can be done?
Here is what PDList outputs for drive 3, for example:
Enclosure Device ID: 252
Slot Number: 3
Enclosure position: N/A
Device Id: 15
WWN: 5000C500472B3778
Sequence Number: 1
Media Error Count: 0
Other Error Count: 0
Predictive Failure Count: 0
Last Predictive Failure Event Seq Number: 0
PD Type: SAS
Raw Size: 0 KB [0x22314357 Sectors]
Non Coerced Size: 0 KB [0x2221825b Sectors]
Coerced Size: 0 KB [0x220b1800 Sectors]
Sector Size: 520
Logical Sector Size: 520
Physical Sector Size: 520
Firmware state: Unconfigured(good), Spun Up
Device Firmware Level: GF0B
Shield Counter: 0
Successful diagnostics completion on : N/A
SAS Address(0): 0x5000c500472b3779
SAS Address(1): 0x0
Connected Port Number: 0(path0)
Inquiry Data: SEAGATE ST3300657SS GF0B6SJ41KJE11324D1
FDE Capable: Not Capable
FDE Enable: Disable
Secured: Unsecured
Locked: Unlocked
Needs EKM Attention: No
Foreign State: None
Device Speed: Unknown
Link Speed: Unknown
Media Type: Hard Disk Device
Drive: Not Supported
Drive Temperature : N/A
PI Eligibility: No
Drive is formatted for PI information: No
PI: No PI
Port-0 :
Port status: Active
Port's Linkspeed: Unknown
Port-1 :
Port status: Active
Port's Linkspeed: Unknown
Drive has flagged a S.M.A.R.T alert : No