All,
Have installed ESXi 5.5 and grabbed a couple of spare drives. When adding a datastore, I received multiple failures. Found the drives to have existing partition tables on them. SSH'ed into the host and tried partedUtil and DD. Both returned that the disk is read-only. I have searched in vain to find the command to mark the disks as read/write. Anyone have any ideas? None of the KBs have done anything. There is no StorageIO Control or other advanced features enabled. Just need to wipe the disks, but there seems to be no easy way...