We just got a Compellent SC030 donated to our University but it has 3 failed disks. We are able to access the GUI, but no serial access for some reason. We deleted the volumes, servers, however we are not able to create a new volume. I have tried releasing disks but can not because they have user allocated blocks. I have tried to remove th user blocks by a re-balance but the re-balance will not complete. I have tried creating a new storage folder and moving disks but no luck. I have a few smaller disks and have tried replacing the bad disks with those, but the SAN just wrote user blocks to those disks and will still not re-balance.
No support coverage. I do not have the original licenses. Cache cards show expired. Controller versions 5.3.3
Any suggestions to force the removal of user blocks.