How to reformat HDD & SSD to 512B Sector Size
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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.Is there any hope?
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 !
Sorry guys, i dont have fw for ssd's. And you can't download generic fw ti IBM branded drive
I think i found something, i guess BPGNB957 is for generic ssd's. I can try to download it to your ssd
Just wanted to pop in and say thanks to everyone for this very helpful thread. Got a few HP branded Kioxia RM5 drives reformatted and added to a new Proxmox node. Lot of great learning to be done around here for sure.
Hello guys, i have IBM 7.6 TB SSD but they are 528 and I've been trying to convert them to 512 byte on and off for 3 years but I've never been successful. I saw something while shopping on ebay. it was saying " ** Made for IBM system - locked in 528-byte sectors formatting ** "
Is it possible to convert these damn things to 512 bytes? Or does it have to remain at 528 bytes throughout its life?
link : IBM 02WF182 7.6TB 2.5" SAS SSD XS7680SE70094 No Caddy | eBay
Is it possible to convert these damn things to 512 bytes? Or does it have to remain at 528 bytes throughout its life?
link : IBM 02WF182 7.6TB 2.5" SAS SSD XS7680SE70094 No Caddy | eBay
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@sick1655, these commands do not work?
When you try, what error do you get?
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The command also might need a --six parameter, see here:
When you try, what error do you get?
I got two of these and unfortunately they were hardware locked, i tried EVERYTHING and nothing helped
I guess it's similar to what AMD does with their Epyc specific to Dell, they hardware lock it with an internal fuse.I got two of these and unfortunately they were hardware locked, i tried EVERYTHING and nothing helped
If it is locked in firmware then the other option I can think of is if you can figure out who made the drive and what the model is and try and overwrite the firmware with one from the manufacture (assuming it's made by Samsung, WD, or someone other than IBM themselves). Risky business. I've done it with motherboards (Intel board but had a specific firmware from IBM or some such that locked out features) but not with drives.
For those dealing with locked drive issues, I recently purchased some drives off of eBay where they did this (bunch of NetApp HGST drives from eBay) and discovered that the command line utility DID work, however you have to put the PSID EXACTLY as it is on the drive. All instructions say to put only uppercase. However you need the PSID needs to be EXACT CASE. Also be careful of "1" and lower case "L". Got me a few times.
After that, running the command to format worked perfectly fine for me.
sedutil-cli -v --yesIreallywanttoERASEALLmydatausingthePSID <<EXACTPSID>> /dev/<<device>>After that, running the command to format worked perfectly fine for me.
sg_format --format --size=512 --fmtpinfo=0 --pfu=0 -v /dev/<<device>> &
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