July 12, 20241 yr I got some new (used) drives that when I put in my server they populate in UD but I can't do anything with them. It doesn't show any partitions and I can't mount them. All of them have the same log entries "Jul 11 20:08:43 Tower emhttpd: device /dev/sdd has size zero". I suspect that the formatting isn't compatible but I don't see any way to format them. tower-diagnostics-20240711-2124.zip
July 12, 20241 yr Author Can I 3 hours ago, JorgeB said: Logical block size: 520 bytes You need to reformat to 512B Can anyone tell me how to do that?
July 12, 20241 yr Community Expert Don't know by heart but if you Google "format SAS 512B" or search the forum it should not be hard find
July 12, 20241 yr Author 12 hours ago, JorgeB said: Don't know by heart but if you Google "format SAS 512B" or search the forum it should not be hard find 15 hours ago, JorgeB said: Logical block size: 520 bytes You need to reformat to 512B "sg_scan -i" to list all attached drives In my case these were the commands to fix my drives; "sg_format --format --size=512 --fmtpinfo=0 /dev/sg2" "sg_format --format --size=512 --fmtpinfo=0 /dev/sg3" "sg_format --format --size=512 --fmtpinfo=0 /dev/sg5" "sg_format --format --size=512 --fmtpinfo=0 /dev/sg6" Edited July 12, 20241 yr by peace-keeping-villa8590
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