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    How to reformat HDD & SSD to 512B Sector Size

    Ok tried almost everything in my power to do so.... Tried 6 different machines, AMS-PhenomII on a ASUS board, Tried a Intel Xeon Server main board and 2 different (an old Pentium 4 and new with i5 8600K) Supermicro Server board, and 1 Lenovo Desktop and a Dell Laptop with eSATA. All controllers...
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    How to reformat HDD & SSD to 512B Sector Size

    Unfortunatly not yet, I will try the -S flag later this week when I have the time. And I will try and find myself a non RAID SATA adapter, onboard and or addon card to try again. We should have some laying around. Will let you know.
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    How to reformat HDD & SSD to 512B Sector Size

    Hello all, I got the same... I have 4 100GB Samsung SSD's from an EMC storage formatted at 520B/sector. I tried all of the commands mentioned here at the forum, but I keep getting the following error: A FORMAT UNIT will commence in 5 seconds ALL data on /dev/sg4 will be DESTROYED...