why some surplus SAS server hard drives IBM Hitachi Seagate

why some surplus SAS server hard drives IBM Hitachi Seagate cannot format using sg_format commands!

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“drive not ready error” and “not found errors”, BS , the drives have NOT been told to spin up and so cannot be formatted or talked to properly. Not sure if there is a workaround. Very annoying. overview study of the problem I see many others having the same issue. Maybe don’t waste your money -…

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