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Thank you @schlagbaum, now all I have to do is find the A4GL0003 firmware.

@napalm_atx I’ll look into it this weekend and report back my findings. Hugo tells me the current version, should I rely on it? # hugo show Manuf. Model Serial Interface Capacity Type Firmware...

@napalm_atx So if my drives firmware is A4GL0003, I assume I can safely flash the A4GNVD05 firmware available now at HDDGuru, for my HUH728080ALE601 model?

Thank you for the useful information, I did not know about it.

It does not, same 512e support only. As a side note, DCToolkit has a nice feature showing you how my data was written to each disk, so you know what's left for the disk endurance: # ./DCToolkit --list...

I have the GXT32F3Q installed, I'll check if I can get it extracted and share it. I don't think there is an easy tool to extract the firmware, openSeaChest has one but is designed only for Seagate disks.

I need these drives to 4Kn because they will be used to create a ZFS mirror pool, which by default creates it with a ashift=12 for AF 4096-byte logical sectors hard drives. With 512-byte sectors, the hard drive must perform extra mechanical steps in the form of reading a 4K sector, modifying the...

Yep, DCToolkit complains about a specific firmware format, it would not take the .bin. I'm on HXT7A04Q now: # hdparm --fwdownload ./pm883/HXT7A04Q_NF.bin --please-destroy-my-drive --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing /dev/sda # reboot # hdparm --user-master u --security-set-pass 1 /dev/sda # hdparm -I...

Thanks @pimposh, what is the NF indicator into HXT7A04Q_NF.bin, new firmware? I would've never known that is the last firmware, unless @DarkServant mentioned it earlier. What is the correct way to determine the latest firmware version? Looks like letters have precedence. @DarkServant, I see...

@pimposh i just don’t want to write the wrong firmware on the disk. The way I figured, the only place indicated I deal with a pm883a disk is on the actual disk sticker?

@DarkServant thanks a lot for that link I’ll try to update the firmware tonight. How to I know the difference between pm883 and pm883a on my disk? On the disk label would be written pm883a, I presume, mines is written pm883.

From my understanding, newer firmware adds performance enhancements and fixes. My disks are 601s not 604s.

@CyklonDX the problem is my PM883 firmware is either old or custom and it allows only 512e format: # hugo show -g /dev/sda Manuf. Model Serial Interface Capacity Type Firmware...

@CyklonDX did you formatted the Pm883 to 4096 logical sectors? I think the firmware does now allows it, that’s why I was researching on it. Yea, I always use a small box running Debian, where I can directly connect the disks.

From my experience, if sg_format does not work, SeaChest will not work also. That’s the first thing I tried.