EDIT 22/4: I solved the problem with HGST Device Manager 3.4 but read the whole thread as you may find other suggestions if my solution doesn't work for you. Someone suggested NVME FORMAT command in Linux which seems to have similar syntax with HDM. HDM didn't find the SSD in Windows (driver issue perhaps, HGST has a specific NVMe driver which I didn't have) but worked fine in linux (ubuntu live) and the command is: "hdm format --sector-size 512 --metadata-size 0 --dif-level 0 /dev/nvme0" - use nvmeo NOT nvmeon1 as it seems you need to format the controller not the namespace, everything I did and posted in this thread was with /dev/nvme0n1 and didn't solve my problems until HDM manual mentioned nvme0 (you can find what nvme0 and nvme0n1 on page 2 after run few commands in HDM)
Hi all
Hope you can help.
I bought 2 cheap SAS SSDs 7.68TB HGST SN200 HUSMR7676BDP3Y1 from ebay removed from Dell EMC (has EMC P/N on them as well). The seller said they should work with a PCIe adapter
I tried every suggestion on this forum but nothing worked: sg tools, gparted, fdisk, diskpart
I thought it must be the 520b block size issue but according to info below it seems to be 512b
All above apps give one error or another, Windows is blue screening most of the time and when it loads it shows the size of the ssd 512b and won't clean/format it.
See below all info from all apps I tried.
I am accessing the drives with this m.2 nvme adapter + cable or the pcie card (I used this pcie card with many SAS nvme ssds)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01D8F9JAK/ & https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01J3MYD8K/
OR https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-U-2-PCIe-Adapter-SFF-8639/dp/B072JK2XLC/
I also contacted WD/HGST support and they said they haven't tested these SSDs with those adapters but the SSDs should work fine (they asked for photo of SSDs and S/N)
HD Sentinel
SG Tools in Windows
Crystal Disk Info Windows
DISKPART Windows - Disk 1 is the SAS SSD
FDISK in ubuntu (I tried creating partition table and partition with it but when write/save it says denied or something
SG TOOLS in ubuntu doesn't show the SAS SSD
GPARTED errors in ubuntu
Hi all
Hope you can help.
I bought 2 cheap SAS SSDs 7.68TB HGST SN200 HUSMR7676BDP3Y1 from ebay removed from Dell EMC (has EMC P/N on them as well). The seller said they should work with a PCIe adapter
I tried every suggestion on this forum but nothing worked: sg tools, gparted, fdisk, diskpart
I thought it must be the 520b block size issue but according to info below it seems to be 512b
All above apps give one error or another, Windows is blue screening most of the time and when it loads it shows the size of the ssd 512b and won't clean/format it.
See below all info from all apps I tried.
I am accessing the drives with this m.2 nvme adapter + cable or the pcie card (I used this pcie card with many SAS nvme ssds)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01D8F9JAK/ & https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01J3MYD8K/
OR https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-U-2-PCIe-Adapter-SFF-8639/dp/B072JK2XLC/
I also contacted WD/HGST support and they said they haven't tested these SSDs with those adapters but the SSDs should work fine (they asked for photo of SSDs and S/N)
HD Sentinel
Code:
Hard Disk Summary
Hard Disk Number,1
Interface,NVMe
Disk Controller,"Standard NVM Express Controller (PCI\CC_010802) [VEN: 1C58, DEV: 0023] Version: 10.0.17763.168, 6-21-2006"
Disk Location,"Bus Number 0, Target Id 0, LUN 0"
Hard Disk Model ID,HUSMR7676BDP3Y1
Firmware Revision,KNEGZ107
Hard Disk Serial Number,XXXXXXXXX
Total Size,0 MB
Power State,Active
Properties
NVMe Standard Version,1.2
PCI Vendor ID (VID),0x1C58
PCI Subsystem Vendor ID (SSVID),0x1C58
IEEE OUI Identifier,CA-0C-00
Recommended Arbitration Burst (RAB),7
Multi-Interface Capabilities,0
Maximum Data Transfer Size,1 (0)
Abort Command Limit,256
Asynchronous Event Request Limit,8
Number FW Slots Support,5
Maximum Error Log Page Entries,256
Total Number Of Power States,16
Admin Vendor Specific CMD Format,1
Submission Queue Entry Size,"Max: 64, Min: 64"
Completion Queue Entry Size,"Max: 16, Min: 16"
Number of Namespaces,128
Stripe Size,0
Highest Possible Transfer Rate,PCIe 3.0 x4
Negotiated Transfer Rate,PCIe 2.0 x4
Maximum Power,2500
Code:
D:\sg>sg_scan
PD1 HUSMR7676BDP3Y1 KNEGZ107 0000_0000_0000_0000_000C_CA0B_01EC_2780.
D:\sg>sg_format --format --size=512 -v PD1
NVMe HUSMR7676BDP3Y1 Z107 peripheral_type: disk [0x0]
PROTECT=1
<< supports protection information>>
Unit serial number: XXXXXXXXXX
LU name: eui.0000000000000000000CCA0B01EC2780
mode sense (10) cdb: 5a 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 fc 00
mode sense (10):
Fixed format, current; Sense key: Illegal Request
Additional sense: Invalid field in cdb
Info fld=0x0 [0]
bad field in MODE SENSE (10) [mode_page 1 not supported?]
D:\sg>sg_format --format --size=512 --six -v PD1
NVMe HUSMR7676BDP3Y1 Z107 peripheral_type: disk [0x0]
PROTECT=1
<< supports protection information>>
Unit serial number: XXXXXXXXXXX
LU name: eui.0000000000000000000CCA0B01EC2780
mode sense (6) cdb: 1a 00 01 00 fc 00
mode sense (6):
Fixed format, current; Sense key: Illegal Request
Additional sense: Invalid field in cdb
Info fld=0x0 [0]
bad field in MODE SENSE (6) [mode_page 1 not supported?]
Code:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(2) HUSMR7676BDP3Y1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Model : HUSMR7676BDP3Y1
Firmware : KNEGZ107
Serial Number : XXXXXXX
Disk Size : 4294967.2 GB
Buffer Size : Unknown
# of Sectors :
Rotation Rate : ---- (SSD)
Interface : NVM Express
Major Version : NVM Express 1.2
Minor Version :
Transfer Mode : PCIe 2.0 x4 | PCIe 3.0 x4
Power On Hours : 45 hours
Power On Count : 46 count
Host Reads : 0 GB
Host Writes : 0 GB
Temperature : 47 C (116 F)
Health Status : Good (100 %)
Features : S.M.A.R.T.
APM Level : ----
AAM Level : ----
Drive Letter :
-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 000000000000 Critical Warning
02 000000000140 Composite Temperature
03 000000000064 Available Spare
04 00000000000A Available Spare Threshold
05 000000000000 Percentage Used
06 000000000003 Data Units Read
07 000000000003 Data Units Written
08 0000000008BB Host Read Commands
09 000000000005 Host Write Commands
0A 000000000000 Controller Busy Time
0B 00000000002E Power Cycles
0C 00000000002D Power On Hours
0D 000000000028 Unsafe Shutdowns
0E 000000000000 Media and Data Integrity Errors
0F 00000000003F Number of Error Information Log Entries
Code:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 238 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 512 B 512 B
Disk 2 Online 57 GB 0 B
Code:
Unpartitioned space /dev/nvme0n1: 7 TiB, 7681500061184 bytes, 15002929807 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 7 TiB, 7681501126656 bytes, 15002931888 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: F476C156-5811-C74F-BDFF-D93BD78E2F63
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo sg_scan -i
/dev/sg0: scsi0 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em]
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 PMAP [rmb=1 cmdq=0 pqual=0 pdev=0x0]
/dev/sg1: scsi2 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em]
ATA SanDisk SD8SB8U2 2000 [rmb=0 cmdq=1 pqual=0 pdev=0x0]
Code:
e2label: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/nvme0n1p1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
dumpe2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
dumpe2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/nvme0n1p1
Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for ext4 file system support: e2fsprogs v1.41+.
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