Retired NetApp SAS drives.

Recently we started retiring NetApp 2050 filers, as they have reached their End Of Line.  They have twenty-four 900gb 10k SAS drives.  I thought perhaps they could be re-purposed.  Initial investigation seems like a: "No".  I tried them in both an HP Proliant DL 380 G7 and a Cisco UCS M3 C220.  Both machines could "see" the drives but not do anything with them.



I am not sure of the purpose of this little board.  It has way too many chips on it to simply be a extension card for packaging sake.  It likely just doing something with the LED's.




I haven't spent enough time on this topic, but if anyone knows how to get these drives to be recognized on a normal server, please reach out.

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  1. the wrong block size is the problem. you need to lowlevel format the disk... look here: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/how-to-reformat-hdd-ssd-to-512b-sector-size.4968/

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