Casper Unrelated: Hardware Question

ernstcs
Contributor III

Hi Gang,

I am helping someone with some older Xserve hardware and they are having
some issues getting the disks to initialize. It's a G4 vintage system with a
megaraid installed.

-- Issue --

Using the diskutil list terminal command I see a 467 gig drive as dev0 -
however, it's still not writeable. I can't format the drive, it tells me

Partitioning encountered error on disk disk0: Permission denied (13)

when I attempt this command

diskutil eraseDisk "Journaled HFS+" Macintosh HD /dev/disk0

So, right now it sees the disk, but it's locked apparently - is there some
terminal command to unlock a volume that you are aware of?

-- End Issue --

Any ideas?

Thanks folks!

Craig E

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tlarkin
Honored Contributor

Just out of curiosity, the hardware lock (the bolt with the security key) is not all the way on and locked is it?