This time on any ATA disk attached to the P420 (p420i) controller in HBA mode (hbamode=on):
2018-05-29T10:33:49.969Z cpu3:2098605 opID=25f29edd)World: 11942: VC opID 1d67307f maps to vmkernel opID 25f29edd
2018-05-29T10:33:49.968Z cpu3:2098605 opID=25f29edd)LVM: 12674: LVMProbeDevice failed with status "Device does not contain a logical volume".
2018-05-29T10:33:50.004Z cpu0:2097163)nhpsa: hpsa_vmkScsiCmdDone:6512: Sense data: error code: 0x70, key: 0x5, info:00 00 00 00 , cmdInfo:00 00 00 00 , CmdSN: 0xbef7, worldId: 0x0, Cmd: 0x16, ASC: 0x20, ASCQ: 0x0
2018-05-29T10:33:50.004Z cpu0:2097705)ScsiDeviceIO: 3029: Cmd(0x459a40cffc80) 0x16, CmdSN 0xbef7 from world 0 to dev "naa.55cd2e404b7784c7" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.
2018-05-29T10:33:50.006Z cpu3:2098605 opID=25f29edd)LVM: 10419: LVMProbeDevice failed on (3798550880, naa.55cd2e404b7784c7:1): Device does not contain a logical volume
2018-05-29T10:33:50.006Z cpu3:2098605 opID=25f29edd)FSS: 2350: Failed to create FS on dev [naa.55cd2e404b7784c7:1] fs [SSD] type [vmfs6] fbSize 1048576 => Not supported
All of my drives (both SAS and SATA) were cleaned with diskpart (select disk x then clean). The SAS drives are fine but all three of my SATA drives behave as above.
Is this another case of needing to DBAN the drives before trying to work with them in ESXi? partedUtil isn't helping with these...