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Sanitize failed: Illegal request, invalid opcode

Might be time to give up on this. But if someone knows where I can get a seagate firmware and how to force flash it to the disks, I will give it a go. Don't mind if I brick them at this stage.

Bugger. The sg_format doesn't seem to be able to change the block size to 512: # sg_format --format --size=512 /dev/sg2 SEAGATE ST3300657SS GF0B peripheral_type: disk [0x0] Mode Sense (block descriptor) data, prior to changes: Number of blocks=573653847 [0x22314357] Block...

Thanks for this information. The LSI card that I have is a 9240, which is also an RoC, I think? So I've picked up a 9211 4-port model for cheap, seems worth trying. I'll report back on how I get on with it.

Ok, thanks. I'll check what model/chip I have on the LSI card soon.

Ok, thanks for that. I think the Intel RS25SB008 that I have is pretty much just a rebranded LSI 9211? Except the Intel also has a super capacitor backed memory module. In fact, I think I have a genuine LSI 9211 too. Any idea how to actually do the reformat with it?

Yes, I have an HBA. That is the Intel RS25SB008 card itself. I'm just not sure how I flash the disks if they won't go into JBOD mode and be visibile to the OS in order to flash them? Although, I read a bit more, and I think they can be flashed with 'megacli' like this: > megacli -PdFwDownload...

No wonder they were cheap, I did not read the advert properly. It says: "Please note these drives are designed for the Fujitsu Eternus systems and have a different firmware on them to a standard drive." Any idea how I can flash them back to a normal Seagate firmwire?

The disks are Seagate ST3300657SS which are supposed to work with this LSI based card. They appear to be formatted to 520 rather 512 bytes per sector. Not new, so they could have been formatted to that from an original format of 512, I don't know. They are listed as unsupported (Drive: Not...