Hello angainor,   The replacement drive may be bad. Do you have another slot to try it in?   You can try these steps: Shut down, remove drive, power up and go into controller BIOS , confirm drive is not present and insert new drive.  It should start rebuilding and if it doesn't then set the drive as a hot spare and the rebuild should begin.   Also check the controller firmware version is current : [URL]
Hi all, I'm trying to exchange one of the failed SAS drives in a PowerEdge R910. I have set it to offline, markmissing, and prprmv. I have then inserted a newly bought drive, but I can't seem to enable it. PDInfo shows the following: Raw Size: 0 KB [0x0 Sectors]Non Coerced Size: 0 KB [0x0 Sectors]Coerced Size: 0 KB [0x0 Sectors]Sector Size: 0Firmware state: Unconfigured(bad)Device Firmware Level: AS09Shield Counter: 0Successful diagnostics completion on : N/ASAS Address(0): 0x5000c50056de4bb5SAS Address(1): 0x0Connected Port Number: 0(path0) Inquiry Data: SEAGATE ST91000640SS AS099XG4WR9Z FDE Capable: Not CapableFDE Enable: DisableSecured: UnsecuredLocked: UnlockedNeeds EKM Attention: NoForeign State: None Device Speed: Unknown Link Speed: Unknown Media Type: Hard Disk DeviceDrive: Not SupportedDrive Temperature : N/API Eligibility: No Drive is formatted for PI information: NoPI: No PIPort-0 :Port status: ActivePort's Linkspeed: Unknown Port-1 :Port status: ActivePort's Linkspeed: Unknown Drive has flagged a S.M.A.R.T alert : No So the state is Unconfigured(bad), and most other drive features are Unknown, although the drive itself is correctly identified (SEAGATE ST91000640SS). I tried to make it good, but I gen an error: MegaCli64 -PDMakeGood -PhysDrv[32:8] -Force -a0Adapter: 0: Failed to change PD state at EnclId-32 SlotId-8. Exit Code: 0x01 I looked at the event log and I see the following: MegaCli64 -AdpEventLog -GetLatest 100 -f events.log -aALL[...]Event Description: Inserted: PD 08(e0x20/s8)Event Description: Inserted: PD 08(e0x20/s8) Info: enclPd=20, scsiType=0, portMap=00, sasAddr=5000c50056de4bb5,0000000000000000Event Description: PD 08(e0x20/s8) is not a certified driveEvent Description: Unable to access device PD 08(e0x20/s8)Event Description: State change on PD 08(e0x20/s8) from UNCONFIGURED_GOOD(0) to UNCONFIGURED_BAD(1) So it seems the drive is not certified, although it's the same drive as all the others in this system. The only difference I've noticed is that the other drives have a different Firmware Level: AS03, while the new drive is at AS09. Can that be the reaons why this drive won't start? Or is this something else? I would appreciate any insights.. Thanks!  
Problems adding a new SAS drive to megaraid: Unconfigured(bad)