Seagate Constellation ES.2 3TB Not Initializing

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BritGuy

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Aug 10, 2015
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Hi.

Im fairly new here but have been lurking a while.

Just wanted to see if anyone had any ideas about the following issue.

I have a Seagate Constellation ES.2 3TB SAS drive (Dell Branded) and everything looks fine until i try to initialize it. SAS controller sees it, i can update/downgrade its firmware.

Just cant get it to initialize in the OS (Server 2012 R2). I have 3 other drives that are the same type (all Dell branded).

I am running them off an LSI 9211-8i and the other 3 work great.

No odd noises etc from the drive.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

BritGuy
 

Chuckleb

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Have you tried on another computer or OS? Sometimes I get problems formatting drives correctly on windows and just shove it in a Linux box to get things wiped out.
 
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Stanza

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use the command line to clear the drive

Using a command line
  1. Open Command Prompt.
  2. Type:

    diskpart
  3. At the DISKPART prompt, type:

    list disk

    Make note of the disk number of the disk from which you want to delete the partition.
  4. At the DISKPART prompt, type:

    select diskn

    Select the disk n from which you want to delete the partition.
  5. At the DISKPART prompt, type:

    list partition

    Make note of the number of the partition that you want to delete.
  6. At the DISKPART prompt, type:

    select partitionn

    Select the partition n that you want to delete.
  7. At the DISKPART prompt, type:

    delete partition
 

BritGuy

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Aug 10, 2015
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Seattle, WA
Thanks. Tried most of this without luck. Think its just a bad drive.

The drive is actually showing as 0TB to the controller (outside any OS) so im guessing bad :(