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FYI: I got 11 10tb drives (4 Seagate and 7 WD sas models) gifted to me from a fellow IT guy that I didn't know that they were from a netapp appliance, and after connecting them up and running those commands I was able to start formatting them. My setup is a Chenbro-Cleversafe-Slicestor-1440 (48 Bay SAS) with to a LSI SAS2008 Fusion-MPT SAS2 [Falcon] (rev 03) card in IT mode in my Epyc based server. I didn't have the drives in the Netapp enclosure but instead in an expander on one side (the other 24 bay side has the 17 10TB WD WD100EMAZ drives connected). At first when I connected them I had them mixed on the expanders and didn't realize until I realized they might be a) not able to mix right, and b)oddball formatted/firmware enterprise drives, and found them to be option b, they were Netapp drives. After putting them on their own side apart from the sata drives, I started looking for information on how to flash their firmware because I remembered that they might have custom firmware, but then I just tried the commands shown here and it worked! They are formatting without any other steps needed! Thanks for this writeup! It did the trick!

I wasn having the same issues that I looked at the logs and it was showing "update <mydomainname.com> N/y" so I added the following line to the config file after the domain line: UPDATE='Y' and boom it started working. # This is an email address USERNAME='MYUSERNAME' PASSWORD='MYPASSWORD' # Your hostname, group name, or a comma-delimited list of a mix of them. DOMAINS='MyGroup' UPDATE='Y' <---- ADDED THIS LINE AND IT GENERATED THE CONF FILE AFTER THE FIRST RUN # Examples: 5 m, 5 h, 5 d. Minimum is 5 minutes. INTERVAL='30m'