I've got a bunch of EMC 2 TB SAS drives with PS0C firmware and an old 15 bay EMC VNX enclosure for them.
My problem is that the drives in the enclosure are not recognized as usable by my Dell H810 adapter -- they show up as "Blocked", and so I can't do anything with them.
For testing, I put a few 1 TB SATA drives into the enclosure -- they are recognized just fine and I can create a RAID array with them, so that shows that the enclosure, cabling, and the adapter are all good.
Questions:
Why would the SAS drives show up as "blocked"?
How can I remedy that without replacing the drives?
My problem is that the drives in the enclosure are not recognized as usable by my Dell H810 adapter -- they show up as "Blocked", and so I can't do anything with them.
For testing, I put a few 1 TB SATA drives into the enclosure -- they are recognized just fine and I can create a RAID array with them, so that shows that the enclosure, cabling, and the adapter are all good.
Questions:
Why would the SAS drives show up as "blocked"?
How can I remedy that without replacing the drives?