HGST HUSMM1640ASS201 & HUSMM1640ASS204 OEM Firmware

[mr44er]

Ok, that looks good. I expected an error.
What does smartctl -q noserial -x /dev/da0 say now?

 

[Sparky1847]

Ok, that looks good. I expected an error.
What does smartctl -q noserial -x /dev/da0 say now?

I hope this shows you something.

 

[mr44er]

Uh, strange. Can you post also dmesg now? Then pull the disk, reinsert, wait 10-20 secs to spinup, then dmesg again?

Maybe they have a very good locking mechanism from firmware...never saw it before.

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/is-it-possible-to-get-these-sas-hitachi-drives-to-work-on-a-normal-system.13743/post-320000

 

[Sparky1847]

Uh, strange. Can you post also dmesg now? Then pull the disk, reinsert, wait 10-20 secs to spinup, then dmesg again?

Maybe they have a very good locking mechanism from firmware...never saw it before.

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/is-it-possible-to-get-these-sas-hitachi-drives-to-work-on-a-normal-system.13743/post-320000

Sorry I have to step away for a bit, I will post them soon. Thanks

 

[Sparky1847]

Sorry I have to step away for a bit, I will post them soon. Thanks

First log

 

[Sparky1847]

View attachment 32342First log

After removing the drive

 

[mr44er]

Looks good, with other disk this is exactly how it should be. Try reboot to unraid and see if it throws errors again. If it does, then I'm out of ideas.

 

[Sparky1847]

Thanks for the help, I tried rebooting and still the same. Seems the drives are not easy to fix. I'm trying to get the seller to take them back although its past 30 days. I'm sitting on 40 of these bricks. Thanks again.

 

[mr44er]

Yes, giving them back is best option.
It seems you need to change the firmware to make them run normal, but this is another lock with more horror: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7raoz8/_/idxmolz
DKR5E-J1R2SS = HUC101212CSS600 / Cobra-EP

 

[jabuzzard]

That is no longer the case and there is a solution to make all drives taken from a VSP system usable.

GitHub - digitalcabbage/vspenable: Enable SCSI_WRITE on hard drives removed from a HGST VSP storage system

Enable SCSI_WRITE on hard drives removed from a HGST VSP storage system - digitalcabbage/vspenable

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