I'm trying to see if I can cross-flash these drives to reclaim the missing 640gb, but I am not having much luck.
Posting just in case fresh eyes or someone who knows more than me might be willing to offer help?
I have 4 of these drives
Labels on the drives show P/N: MZILT3T8HALS-00AC3 | Model: MZ-ILT3T8A | PM1643 with 3.84TB capacity
However, the smartctl output gives:
And the sg_inq output:
I've tried sg_write with all different modes, openseachest, sasdupie to update the firmware to dsf8, but no joy.
Closest I've gotten was with
For further reference:
Posting just in case fresh eyes or someone who knows more than me might be willing to offer help?
I have 4 of these drives
Labels on the drives show P/N: MZILT3T8HALS-00AC3 | Model: MZ-ILT3T8A | PM1643 with 3.84TB capacity
However, the smartctl output gives:
Code:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SAMSUNG
Product: P045S3T2 EMC3200
Revision: EWFA
Compliance: SPC-5
User Capacity: 3,200,824,377,344 bytes [3.20 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Physical block size: 4096 bytes
LU is resource provisioned, LBPRZ=1
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5002538b002b6590
Serial number: KLNA0N202085
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-4)
Local Time is: Tue Aug 4 12:29:45 2026 AEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Percentage used endurance indicator: 2%
Current Drive Temperature: 33 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 70 C
Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 31281:38
Manufactured in week 07 of year 2020
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 78
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 0
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 0
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Code:
sudo sg_inq /dev/sg1
standard INQUIRY:
PQual=0 PDT=0 RMB=0 LU_CONG=0 hot_pluggable=0 version=0x07 [SPC-5]
[AERC=0] [TrmTsk=0] NormACA=0 HiSUP=1 Resp_data_format=2
SCCS=0 ACC=0 TPGS=0 3PC=0 Protect=0 [BQue=0]
EncServ=0 MultiP=1 (VS=0) [MChngr=0] [ACKREQQ=0] Addr16=0
[RelAdr=0] WBus16=0 Sync=0 [Linked=0] [TranDis=0] CmdQue=1
[SPI: Clocking=0x1 QAS=0 IUS=0]
length=202 (0xca) Peripheral device type: disk
Vendor identification: SAMSUNG
Product identification: P045S3T2 EMC3200
Product revision level: EWFA
Unit serial number: KLNA0N202085Closest I've gotten was with
sudo sg_write_buffer -b 4k -I /tmp/dsf8_extract/payload/DSF8.fwh -m 14 -v /dev/sg1, and it gets 99% there, but end result is
Code:
Write buffer:
Descriptor format, current; Sense key: Illegal Request
Additional sense: Invalid field in parameter list
Descriptor type: Sense key specific: Field pointer:
Error in Data parameters: byte 0
Descriptor type: Field replaceable unit code: 0x25
Descriptor type: Vendor specific [0x80]
09 65 26 00
Write buffer failed: Illegal request, type: sense key, apart from Invalid opcode
Code:
sudo sg_write_buffer -I /tmp/dsf8_extract/payload/DSF8.fwh -m 4 -v /dev/sg1
tried to read 8388608 bytes from /tmp/dsf8_extract/payload/DSF8.fwh, got 1695744 bytes
will write 1695744 bytes
sending single write buffer, mode=0x4, mpsec=0, id=0, offset=0, len=1695744
Write buffer cdb: [3b 04 00 00 00 00 19 e0 00 00]
Write buffer:
Descriptor format, current; Sense key: Illegal Request
Additional sense: Invalid field in cdb
Descriptor type: Sense key specific: Field pointer:
Error in Command: byte 1 bit 4
Descriptor type: Field replaceable unit code: 0x15
Descriptor type: Vendor specific [0x80]
05 65 24 00
Write buffer failed: Illegal request, type: sense key, apart from Invalid opcode