I acquired some HGST 10TB host managed SMR drives. I am able to access these drives and verify that they are recognized as host managed block device. I am using BTRFS to format them but format is failing with an I/O error. There is no obvious error in dmesg.
With very few online guides here, I am stuck. It is not clear whether the drives are bad, with a very custom firmware or if I am doing something wrong. The drives are attached to intel onboard sata controller under AHCI configuration so host managed SMR should work with btrfs.
I just want to learn if anyone had an experience with host managed SMR and how made it work.
With very few online guides here, I am stuck. It is not clear whether the drives are bad, with a very custom firmware or if I am doing something wrong. The drives are attached to intel onboard sata controller under AHCI configuration so host managed SMR should work with btrfs.
I just want to learn if anyone had an experience with host managed SMR and how made it work.