Hi All,
I have recently purchased a bunch of Seagate ST1800MM0018 drives which have the following info on the label;
Model: ST1800MM0018
PN: 1GR201-46
FW: 7FA3
However, smartctl shows the following information;
Product: DKS5H-J1R8SS
Revision: 7FA9
So it appears that I too, have also purchased Seagate paper-weights with Hitachi VSP firmware... It appears that the main issue is that these drives do not use your typical SCSI write command but instead use write_and_verify.
Has anyone on here had any luck with getting them to work on a "normal" system?
I have tried using sg_format, setblocksize, flashing original firmware (EntPerf-Thunderbolt-STD-SAS-5xxE-E005), extracting and modifying the ROM (model and firmware values) but all attempts have been unsuccessful.
The only thing that I can think of that may possibly work is to;
I have recently purchased a bunch of Seagate ST1800MM0018 drives which have the following info on the label;
Model: ST1800MM0018
PN: 1GR201-46
FW: 7FA3
However, smartctl shows the following information;
Product: DKS5H-J1R8SS
Revision: 7FA9
So it appears that I too, have also purchased Seagate paper-weights with Hitachi VSP firmware... It appears that the main issue is that these drives do not use your typical SCSI write command but instead use write_and_verify.
Has anyone on here had any luck with getting them to work on a "normal" system?
I have tried using sg_format, setblocksize, flashing original firmware (EntPerf-Thunderbolt-STD-SAS-5xxE-E005), extracting and modifying the ROM (model and firmware values) but all attempts have been unsuccessful.
The only thing that I can think of that may possibly work is to;
- Purchase generic Seagate drive with correct firmware.
- Perform a firmware unlock on the generic drive.
- Access SA on generic drive and extract modules.
- Extract ROM from generic drive.
- Perform a firmware unlock on the firmware locked drive.
- Access SA on the firmware locked drive and write previously extracted modules (from generic drive) to firmware locked drive.
- Write previously extracted ROM (from generic drive) to firmware locked drive.