How to reformat HDD & SSD to 512B Sector Size
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per disk ?? Nah ... Do them ALL together! ("It's party time!")... will take ~10hours per disk
[The formatting is done by the drive (fw) itself--no load on HBA or CPU.]
How to flash a retail version of firmware into Seagate OEM enterprise hard disk, thanks.
No need to partition - You can tell the drive with sg3util what sector range you want it to "ignore" based on your sector size you set.
Thanks this was quite helpful.
Something that might also be good to add into this for people who have issues still with this.
"sg_format failed with
Fixed format, current; Sense key: Illegal Request
Additional sense: Parameter list length error
MODE SELECT command: Illegal request sense key, apart from Invalid opcode
I had to use setblocksize
sudo ./setblocksize -b512 -t1200 /dev/sg1"
Got this from another thread we had some HP drives which failed to work using the normal sg_format.
Downloading this GitHub - ahouston/setblocksize: Fork of setblocksize and compiling it gave us the setblocksize command quoted above which worked great.
Took a few hours for our two drives we formatted however they where 15.36TB drives.
Missed this first time through the thread and hunted down my own serial number for these drives (for reference #Z1Z8CLYA). Only done a handful so far all successful. I tested a couple using f3write and then f3read (f3 - Fight Flash Fraud — f3 8.0 documentation) as a method of ensuring all blocks on the drives work before I commit data to them. Passed with flying colours.Hi Leon,
I just registered to say thanks for saving my 8 recently bought Seagate 4TB SAS disks (previously DKS2E-H4R0SS and later ST4000NM0023 after firmware downgrade/upgrade) that refused to work with my HBA - could not partition, format, basically use them - console threw constantly the errors you described before. None of my 8 disks' serial's worked in Seagate page in order to find a firmware upgrade available but the serial from the third picture I tried from ebay's units granted me a ticket to firmware download heaven
It worked for me but it's not guaranteed it might work for others. Use it at your own risk!
Just a few hundred to go now. Yes really they came out of a large storage HGST storage system at work and we want to recycle them for other uses. I have an immediate use for ~130 of them
Looks almost like a sata adaptor. However I could be wrong. I don't have any drives in front of me to double check at the moment.
Both connectors are SAS. I googled the PCB part # and its an interposer.
Success with HP branded HGST HUS723020ALS640 using the format command in the OP. No modifications required.
These were 520 byte formatted drives I pulled from HP StoreServ 10000 drive magazines (four drives per magazine) I found on Ebay for $32 per magazine. Drives were new, well at this point "old" I suppose, but they were unused. 2TB isn't a lot of space these days, but $8 each for drives with zero hours..not bad..
They're going into a server I'm helping my son put together for a school elective on computer science. So, another big thank you to @azev for saving me money....again.
These were 520 byte formatted drives I pulled from HP StoreServ 10000 drive magazines (four drives per magazine) I found on Ebay for $32 per magazine. Drives were new, well at this point "old" I suppose, but they were unused. 2TB isn't a lot of space these days, but $8 each for drives with zero hours..not bad..
They're going into a server I'm helping my son put together for a school elective on computer science. So, another big thank you to @azev for saving me money....again.
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Checking here to see if my drives are borked or salvageable... I have 6x Seagate ST6000NM0034 that came with 520b sector size. Since I have been down this road, I formatted them to 512b. That part seems to work:
middlewared.service_exception.CallError: [EFAULT] Failed to wipe disk da0: [EFAULT] Command gpart create -s gpt /dev/da0 failed (code 1):
gpart: Input/output error
and the console spits out a bunch of these:
Anyone seen this before?
Thanks.
Trying to create a pool in TrueNAS I get this error:
middlewared.service_exception.CallError: [EFAULT] Failed to wipe disk da0: [EFAULT] Command gpart create -s gpt /dev/da0 failed (code 1):
gpart: Input/output error
and the console spits out a bunch of these:
All the drives give me the same errors. I have moved them around in the 12 slot chassis. I can build pools on other drives just fine.
Anyone seen this before?
Thanks.
First did you check smart(ctl) to make sure you do not have any protection enabled on the drive? Like type 2 protection. Even after changing the block type 2 protection will result in an input/output error when you try and write to the drive.
If you do that needs to be changed.
Did you only change the block size or did you change the block size and perform a low level format after the change?