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  • SAS drive permanently "busy"?

    From Percival P. Cassidy@Nobody@NotMyISP.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Thu Aug 20 21:44:43 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    Being in need or a spare 6TB drive for my FreeNAS machine, I found a Seagate-recertified SAS drive with more then 4 years warranty remaining.
    But whether I plug it into a motherboard SAS port or a port on the
    add-on SAS card, the "busy" light stays on the whole time. Is this
    normal SAS drive behavior?

    Perce
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  • From Mark Perkins@mark@none.invalid to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Thu Aug 20 23:03:07 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 21:44:43 -0400, "Percival P. Cassidy"
    <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> wrote:

    Being in need or a spare 6TB drive for my FreeNAS machine, I found a >Seagate-recertified SAS drive with more then 4 years warranty remaining.
    But whether I plug it into a motherboard SAS port or a port on the
    add-on SAS card, the "busy" light stays on the whole time. Is this
    normal SAS drive behavior?

    I have a 2-port SAS controller, but I use SATA breakout cables so that I
    can connect 8 SATA drives. I'm not sure what's normal for a SAS drive.

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