Seller claims this drive works 100%, and I didn't end up testing it within the return window...

Drive feels like it powers up and does not appear in unraid. I see it under system devices.

Current problem

• Drive spins up but stays in not ready state

• Logical unit not ready, power cycle required and I have reset this thing many times

• PROTECT=1 is enabled but no commands I can run work usually saying not ready

• Cannot run sg_format because the drive is not ready

I have tried

• Multiple full power cycles (PSU unplugged 5-10+ minutes) + drive reseat

• sg_format --format --fmtpinfo=0 --size=512 -v /dev/sdh (fails with not ready)

• Tried enabling libata.allow_tpm=1 and ran sedutil-cli --PSIDrevertAdminSP (but says "Invalid or unsupported disk")

• 3.3v pin taped on sata power connector

homeserver-diagnostics-20260526-2225.zip

Looks like a drive problem to me, it cannot even get the capacity.

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] Read Capacity(16) failed: Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=DRIVER_OK

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] Sense Key : 0x2 [current] [descriptor]

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] ASC=0x4 ASCQ=0x22

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=DRIVER_OK

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] Sense Key : 0x2 [current] [descriptor]

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] ASC=0x4 ASCQ=0x22

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] 0 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B)

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] 0-byte physical blocks

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] Asking for cache data failed

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] Assuming drive cache: write through

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] Preferred minimum I/O size 4096 bytes not a multiple of physical block size (0 bytes)

May 26 21:10:52 HomeServer kernel: sd 9:0:3:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI disk

And not even the SMART report is working:

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Vendor: SEAGATE

Product: ST6000NM0034

Revision: NE03

Compliance: SPC-4

LU is fully provisioned

Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm

Form Factor: 3.5 inches

Logical Unit id: 0x5000c500854ad603

Serial number: Z4D4CVS00000R632V7WW

Device type: disk

Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-4)

Local Time is: Tue May 26 22:25:39 2026 EDT

device is NOT READY (e.g. spun down, busy)