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All I did was plug them in and they physically spun up.

This is the answer. The drives needed to be left alone for an extended amount of time (24 hrs to be safe). Unplug, plug back in, unraid sees them normally now. Thanks again!

Very interesting. Just plugged a few drives back in and will let them sit. I did try running sg_sanitize on one of them and got the error device not ready. So maybe it’s in the middle of sanitizing. Will let you know what I find. Thank you so much!

Thanks. I will post the results whenever it finishes.

I did some more testing. 2 of the drives respond. The rest are dead I guess. I have attached smart test results for these 2 drives. Would you use these drives based off these reports? HUH721010AL4200_7PG3TGSR_35000cca25106e3f8-20241120-1030.txt HUH721010AL4200_7PG3TKBR_35000cca25106e53c-20241120-1033.txt

Thanks. The drives spin up. At least one clicks, so I know there's likely issues with some of them. But all 24? Not sure what, or what software might be able to tell me or help me. I looked at SED, but sedutil doesn't allow me to do anything with the drive. So maybe not a SED issue. I have access to some data recovery software that runs on Windows (UFS Explorer Raid Recovery - software that's saved by butt in the past), so I will likely need to install windows on the machine and see if it can do anything.

heres the result root@NIPFLEX:~# smartctl -d scsi --all /dev/sdh smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.1.106-Unraid] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: HGST Product: HUH721010AL4200 Revision: A923 Compliance: SPC-4 LU is fully provisioned Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Logical Unit id: 0x5000cca25106e3f8 Serial number: 7PG3TGSR Device type: disk Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-4) Local Time is: Wed Nov 20 07:24:10 2024 PST device is NOT READY (e.g. spun down, busy) A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

nipflex-diagnostics-20241120-1014.zip Heres the diag

Hello, I have some 10TB SAS drives labeled HGST HUH721010AL4200 that I cannot get to show up in unraid as unassigned devices. They do show up in unraid under system devices. I have booted into Ubuntu and ran gparted, hdparm, sg_start, sedutil-cli from terminal and each command shows very little information about the drives. I am using a LSI 9211-8i card in IT mode. I have some sata drives that pass through OK to unraid on the same hba card. I’ve booted into the hba’s bios and tried running a format command which fails immediately on every drive. I have 24 of these SAS drives. I can’t imagine all 24 are bad…but they did come out of an old Netflix server, which makes me wonder if they did some sort of firmware wipe or something on these drives during the decom process. Wondering if anyone has any experience with a drive in this type of state and if there’s anything I could try to trick it back to life. Thanks. https://imgur.com/a/VC9tPaK