In a general storage/Windows forum.
BTW, a couple of common issues with SAS devices:
-formatted with a custom sector size, Windows and most OSes can only use 512 or 4096, needs to be reformatted with common sector size.
-formatted with type 1 or type 2 protection, this need to be removed.
SMART report will show both of the above, e.g.:
== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: xxx
Product: xxx
Revision: NE02
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 1,800,360,124,416 bytes [1.80 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Physical block size: 4096 bytes
Formatted with type 2 protection
Smartmontools is also available for Windows.