I have few Samsung PM883 SSDs that I need to format to 4Kn sectors,
Edit: I managed to find a hidden file on Samsung servers:
I'm trying to figure how to format the disk from 512 to 4096 logical sectors, but I cannot find anything relevant into help file. Can someone provide some help? The only reference to logical sectors is:
Thank you.
sg_format
and hdparm
fail. I was looking online and apparently the only tool I can use is the DC Toolkit 2.1, but Samsung removed the Linux download link. Anyone has a copy that can share?Edit: I managed to find a hidden file on Samsung servers:
Code:
wget https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/global.semi.static/Samsung_SSD_DC_Toolkit_for_Linux_V2.1
chmod 0755 Samsung_SSD_DC_Toolkit_for_Linux_V2.1
./Samsung_SSD_DC_Toolkit_for_Linux_V2.1 --help
Code:
-X [--sct]
Used to run SCT Command.
-wb [ --writesame-pattern-background ]
Execute Background write same pattern after receiving logical sector, logical sector number and pattern as an input
-wf [ --writesame-pattern-foreground ]
Execute Foreground write same pattern after receiving logical sector, logical sector number and pattern as an input
./Samsung_SSD_DC_Toolkit_for_Linux_V2.1 --disk 1 --sct --writesame-pattern-background 0x0:0x10:0xFF00FF00
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