Currently have a mix of SATA and SAS drives and tried adding 4 new SAS drives. This is how they show up with unassigned drives.

 

I've also tried to format them.

~# sg_format -v --format --six --early --size=4096 /dev/sdt
    IBM-ESXS  ST14000NM004G E   SCL2   peripheral_type: disk [0x0]
      PROTECT=1
      << supports protection information>>
      Unit serial number: ZTM0G2Z80000C2109VB0
      LU name: 5000c500d822e043
    mode sense(6) cdb: [1a 00 01 00 fc 00]
mode sense(6):
Descriptor format, current; Sense key: Not Ready
Additional sense: Logical unit not ready, power cycle required
  Descriptor type: Field replaceable unit code: 0x1
  Descriptor type: Vendor specific [0x80]
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
MODE SENSE (6) command: Device not ready, type: sense key

 

chronos-diagnostics-20250206-1836.zip

Those are SED drives, and currently protected (PROTECT=1), so you need to use sedutil to remove the protection before you can format them. You may also have to change the sector-size of them.

 

I've tried using sedutil but not sure what I'm doing.
 

# wget --content-disposition https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/exec/blob/master/sedutil_LINUX.tgz?raw=true

# installpkg ./sedutil_LINUX.tgz
Verifying package sedutil_LINUX.tgz.
Installing package sedutil_LINUX.tgz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
Package sedutil_LINUX.tgz installed.

# sedutil
-bash: sedutil: command not found

2 hours ago, CPuzey said:

I've tried using sedutil but not sure what I'm doing

After the wget you'd do something like tar -xvf sedutil_LINUX.tgz and then cd  sedutil/Release_x86_64/ and then ./sedutil-cli

But unfortunately that doesn't work because you have to give the Linux-kernel a boot-option to enable or disable something. (to see the error do something like ./sedutil-cli --scan ).

So you'll need to do it through EFI-shell, using this procedure. You don't want to actually encrypt the drive though, so don't do the 'enable locking' stuff. Instead, you need the 'PSID revert' procedure.