Is it dead, Jim?

[Steve Thompson]

I have an MD-1000 shelf with 15 300 GB SAS 10k drives. The last drive in 
the array is a global hot spare (18 months old but never used for data), 
is spinning, and shows a yellow light. omreport says:

ID                        : 0:0:14
Status                    : Unknown
Name                      : Physical Disk 0:0:14
State                     : Unsupported
Failure Predicted         : No
Progress                  : Not Applicable
Type                      : SAS
Capacity                  : 0.00 GB (0 bytes)
Used RAID Disk Space      : 0.00 GB (0 bytes)
Available RAID Disk Space : 0.00 GB (0 bytes)
Hot Spare                 : No
Vendor ID                 : DELL
Product ID                : ST3300555SS
Revision                  : T106
Serial No.                : 3LM0EPA2
Negotiated Speed          : Not Available
Capable Speed             : Not Available
Manufacture Day           : Not Available
Manufacture Week          : Not Available
Manufacture Year          : Not Available
SAS Address               : 5000C50001ECD221

and I don't appear to be able to do anything with it. Is it dead?

-steve