Recent content by SmilinJoe

Well the drives have returned for a refund. That was a learning experience!

Same result. Did the 12 hour sg_format on all the drives, and I still get the input/output errors. Anything else I can try before trying to send these drives back? Thanks.

I kicked off a full, slow sg_format last night that should be finishing up shortly. We'll see what happens. Thanks.

Yeah I ran the commands just like he had. Here are 3 drives:

Doesn't look protection is turned on. I used the commands from this page: Henderson's Law. Had issues with sg_format in the beginning, so I went the camcontrol route. Thought it was equivalent. Thanks.

Checking here to see if my drives are borked or salvageable... I have 6x Seagate ST6000NM0034 that came with 520b sector size. Since I have been down this road, I formatted them to 512b. That part seems to work: Trying to create a pool in TrueNAS I get this error...