Can´t initialize 3.84TB sas drives

[ScrapHardware]

Hi
When we took down a DELL EMC SAN I found some DELL/Toshiba 3.84TB 12gbps SSD drives model PX04SRB384
I have a LSI SAS 9300-16I 12GB/S HBA BUS controller and tried 3 to 4 different cables but cant initialize drives.
In Linux USB Boot,TrueNAS and Windows I can see drives as 2,9 TB drives but cant initialize.
I was thinking its a DELL firmware thing and close to give up on 4 disks.
Can it be some cable issue ore other OS can do it,

Best regards
Andreas
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[Sean Ho]

sg_format -Fs 4096?

 

[ScrapHardware]

I haven't tried it is that in TrueNas have to reinstall it

 

[Sean Ho]

sg3-utils

 

[SloppyDisk]

I did have issues seeing some Toshiba PX04 12G SAS3 SSDs in an R330 (13th gen dell). PERC H330 card would see it in the BIOS but would not pass through to any linux os. My best guess was the Hitachi firmware?? potentially on the disks. They were some really low health (~60% or less) SSDs that I was trying to test. Could see the disks in an older Supermicro 4U Server and access them fine...

Good luck, hopefully you can figure it out.

 

[slidermike]

Did you read the sticky about non-standard OEM drive formats?

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/how-to-reformat-hdd-ssd-to-512b-sector-size.4968/

Sean Ho is on the right track.

 

[SloppyDisk]

Hi
When we took down a DELL EMC SAN I found some DELL/Toshiba 3.84TB 12gbps SSD drives model PX04SRB384
I have a LSI SAS 9300-16I 12GB/S HBA BUS controller and tried 3 to 4 different cables but cant initialize drives.
In Linux USB Boot,TrueNAS and Windows I can see drives as 2,9 TB drives but cant initialize.
I was thinking its a DELL firmware thing and close to give up on 4 disks.
Can it be some cable issue ore other OS can do it,

Best regards
Andreas
.

I got another batch of these again, yet again poor health. Only 77% for the entire lot. I miss the 1.6TB HGST drives, those were tanks, still at 93% after multiple PBW.

Hope you figured this out!

 

[ScrapHardware]

Worked like a charm and disks are online now
U are the best thanks a milion you saved some super bites from become ewaste

 

[SloppyDisk]

Worked like a charm and disks are online now
U are the best thanks a milion you saved some super bites from become ewaste

Hey, any update on what the problem was?

Still trying to figure out my own Toshiba Drives.

Thanks a ton.

 

[ScrapHardware]

After a format in centos with this command:
sg_format --format --size=512 /dev/sgXX
I was able to initialize disks in Windows and TrueNAS

 

[Sean Ho]

Glad you got it sorted!