Question Can't partition SAS drives

[Shmee]

Hmm, if you can't reinitialize, and the seller says it is a firmware issue, if you are unable to resolve the firmware issue you could return them. Maybe work with the seller and see if they can help you update the firmware, either by walking you through the steps or they could themselves.

 

[jamesdsimone]

Hmm, if you can't reinitialize, and the seller says it is a firmware issue, if you are unable to resolve the firmware issue you could return them. Maybe work with the seller and see if they can help you update the firmware, either by walking you through the steps or they could themselves.

As soon as I get off work I'll look at Seagate's website about updating the firmware.

 

[jamesdsimone]

When they complete that operation, try running sudo fdisk -l /dev/"drive" (lsdev to find the drives) to see what the physical sector size is. If the sector size is anything other than 512 or 4096 it won't work with standard operating systems. I bought some HP enterprise drives that were formatted to 520 byte physical sectors because whatever HP enterprise OS they were designed to work with had an extra 8 bytes of checksum data stored in the last 8 bytes; they wouldn't work until I did a mid level reformat to 512 byte physical sectors. If you do need to do that the linux utility sg3_utils will do it.

I downloaded a Seagate utility that says it is 520 byte despite the manual and another partitioning program reporting 512. I'll boot to Linux and run this utility and see if that works. I assume sudo sg3_utils at the command prompt will run it?

 

[jamesdsimone]

Found sg3_utils for linux but not sure how it works.