Hi, have you tried to erase the Drive with the sudo ./SSDManager -d /dev/sdf -SE ?
I dont know how this SAS works with all the hundreds of commands... somehow when the drive receives the command 04h it should format unit, if not, there's a problem.
So far i have only updated SATA and NVMe drives under Windows, and done some overprovisioning with setmax and namespaces with Linux. Under Windows one cannot initiate a drive self-test long/short on an NVMe SSD.
Thank you for your time really appreciate it. the output of the command is
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Samsung SSD Manager Version 2.0.10.4.0
Copyright (C) 2019 SAMSUNG Electronics Co. Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
Bad argument "name", expected an absolute path in /dev/ or /sys/ or a unit name: Invalid argument
[[ WARNING ]]
All data on disk will be erased and cannot be recovered.
Please take a back up of any data if necessary.
Continue Format Command ? [ yes ]: yes
0 : SAS_FormatUnit Done!!
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Thread Instance Num: 0 | Serial Num: S5DCNE0RC00092 | Firmware Version: GXA1
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Success
Error Detail : N/A
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but then when I try to create a partition I get an error:
sudo parted /dev/sdb mklabel gpt
Warning: Error fsyncing/closing /dev/sdb: Input/output error
At this stage I guess that the previous installed fw prevents formatting/partitioning.
I have only FW available for DDN, I have tried to flash HP firmware and Dell firmware unsuccessfully.I have a BC 9400i HBA controller installed.
Trying to find samsung generic software for this drive. Can you help?
Thanks
