How to reformat HDD & SSD to 512B Sector Size

[DouglasteR]

I guess that seller already tried to format them hence a good price...
Your LSI controller GUI doesn't look like an HBA, but 'unconfigured good' status means the drive is not security locked or formatted with PI. Try to format it with HUGO

Unfortunately it also didn't work. It simply fails to format



Is there any hope ?

 

[Whaaat]

Is there any hope ?

There is a little hope of replacing the firmware, I believe you need B925 revision for this model, ask @napalm_atx if he has one to share.

 

[DouglasteR]

There is a little hope of replacing the firmware, I believe you need B925 revision for this model, ask @napalm_atx if he has one to share.

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Great !

@napalm_atx , please, if you have it, can you share this firmware ? It´s for a IBM 4k sector locked SAS SSD !

We believe it is firmware locked and dont really have much of use in it´s actual state.

Thanks guys !

 

[napalm_atx]

Sorry guys, i dont have fw for ssd's. And you can't download generic fw ti IBM branded drive

 

[DouglasteR]

Sorry guys, i dont have fw for ssd's. And you can't download generic fw ti IBM branded drive

thanks for answering

 

[napalm_atx]

I think i found something, i guess BPGNB957 is for generic ssd's. I can try to download it to your ssd

 

[DouglasteR]

I think i found something, i guess BPGNB957 is for generic ssd's. I can try to download it to your ssd

Great !

Which tool is best recommended for this ?

Thanks for the effort guys !

 

[napalm_atx]

hugo or wdckit

 

[DouglasteR]

hugo or wdckit

Much appreciated, will try asap and report back !

Thanks !

 

[DouglasteR]

Another brick wall