You should see your drives listed as pd0, pd1, pd2, etc.

Run an admin command prompt, change to SG3, then run: I had windows installed on a disk connected directly to the motherboard.ĭownload the SG3 utilities from and extract to a folder on your C drive (I did SG3). Which takes you to the location on the drive then you can run the command. the small netapp 600gb 2.5 drives might have the on board cache disabled but I don't notice it in my zpools.ĭo not buy 520/528 bps SSDs, they might not be able to be reformated. The 600gb 520bps cheetah15k.7 EMC drives perform the same as normal cheetahs. There was never a drive that after formating failed to work. I use Lsi adapters and rebranded lsi adapters. Fibre Channel 3Par drives, EMC 600gb sas drives and 3tb sas drives. I have done this to all types of drives520/528bps drives. At one time I was formating 15 drives at once.Īfter that go to windows disk manager and make the disk online. You can open another powershell terminal and start another drive at the same time. To format the emc drives type : sg_format -format -size=512 pdX Where X is the drive you want to format It will take over an hour to format a drive. Open a powershell prompt as an Administrator Type: sg_scan It should tell you which drives windows can see and what their physical drive number is. Physically it seems to be the same as the LSI SAS 9211-8i shown at except the SAS9201-8i is missing what I guess is the RAID chip just above the. Extract the zip and move the files to C:/Windows/ The only place this model number seems to exist is in the ebay item where I bought it. Go here and download the zip for windows. To get the drives formatted correctly we will need to get a special program.

Here is part of the windows tutorial I made a while back.

All drives all listed as lsi megasr