Usually only an HBA will show the drive to OS once hot plugged, on a raid card you will need a reboot most likely. ssd that large can also have compatibility issues with older controllers.I've got a pair of Dell 15TB SSD's which are not showing up on our raid card. Would a reboot show these on a centos system? Or should I try this on just a different server with CentOS and no raid card?
Thanks,Usually only an HBA will show the drive to OS once hot plugged, on a raid card you will need a reboot most likely. ssd that large can also have compatibility issues with older controllers.
An easier way to run these jobs in parallel is to simply use GNU Parallel shell utility (GNU Parallel - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation). That's what I've used to reformat drives en masse.I have a bunch of 520-byte-sector Seagate 3TB drives (Constellation ES.3 ST3000NM023 ST3000NXCLAR3000 GS18) which I am reformatting using setblocksize. It works but takes a huge amount of time (about 12h per drive).
Is there a way to run several reformats in parallel on the same controller? I am using an IBM H1110 converted to 9211-4i in the machine used for the conversion. I could attach 4 drives at a time and run setblocksize on each of them in parallel in separate virtual terminals (in Linux of course). It could save me a huge amount of time if I could do it this way.
Any reason why I shouldn't do that?
user@ubuntu-server:~$ sudo parallel --bar sg_format -v --format --size=512 /dev/sd{} ::: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
It doesn't. did you notice if the drive was formatted with T10 protection before you reformatted it to 512 sector size?Or does it not matter?
I did not I will check now. I also am unable to flash the firmware on these with the ones I found on seagate.It doesn't. did you notice if the drive was formatted with T10 protection before you reformatted it to 512 sector size?
Yes we know this already: View topic - Stuck with a certain flashesFW Download FAILED
This is the error for both E005 and E0G5
RWWP 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0]Yes we know this already: View topic - Stuck with a certain flashes
Try SeaTools for windows, sometimes it allows cross-flashing vendor firmware.
Also using sdparm take a look into control mode pages, the value of RWWP parameter:
Very interesting, thanks for the write up.Since this cost me about a week to find out, I thought, I'd share some Info about the IBM-branded 300GB Seagate Savvio 15k drives and their problems. These are ST9300553SS drives with the IBM part number 45W9615 and they come out of a DS8000 storage system.
sudo sg_readcap /dev/sg7
READ CAPACITY (10) failed: Device not ready
sg_readcap failed: Device not ready
Format unit:
Descriptor format, current; Sense key: Not Ready
Additional sense: Logical unit not ready, initializing command required
Descriptor type: Field replaceable unit code: 0x0
Descriptor type: Vendor specific [0x80]
f5 03
Format unit command: Device not ready, type: sense key
FORMAT UNIT failed
sudo sg_inq /dev/sg7
standard INQUIRY:
PQual=0 Device_type=0 RMB=0 LU_CONG=0 version=0x06 [SPC-4]
[AERC=0] [TrmTsk=0] NormACA=0 HiSUP=1 Resp_data_format=2
SCCS=0 ACC=0 TPGS=0 3PC=0 Protect=1 [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=0x0 QAS=0 IUS=0]
length=164 (0xa4) Peripheral device type: disk
Vendor identification: HGST
Product identification: HUH721010AL5204
Product revision level: C384
Unit serial number: 1DG4xxxx
No, they are as dead as a doornail. You can't format a disk that is not spinningany hint, or are the drives are vender locked?
Those are Samsung drives. Good luck with that. That's been an issue for a number of years.Anyone have had any luck with EMC VNX SSDs? FCC-ID link These drives seem to be firmware locked, and I can seem to find any firmware for them. I have 9 I'd like to use in Storage spaces tiering, but life doesn't like me.