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Hard Drives won't format "Unmountable: Unsupported or no file system"

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Hello,

 

This is my first time doing working on any type of project regarding storage so please excuse me if I get some things wrong. I've got two 12TB HDD's sitting in a HDD enclosure, I have that enclosure plugged into my Mini PC using USB-C. However, every time I try to format the two hard drives to add them to my array, it says "Unmountable: Unsupported or no file system". I've tried many things such as clearing any type of "Write Protections" by plugging the enclosure into my windows machine opening CMD and running a few "diskpart" commands. I even cleared the disks that way. When I opened up disk management I was able to use them as volumes with GPT and NTFS. So I tried to plug it into my Unraid server and used Unassigned devices plugin to preclear and erase all data and format, but am still left with it failing... I'm really not sure what to do. It seems like the drives work and I'm just doing everything wrong...

 

Thank you for taking the time to read and potentially assist.

diagnostics-20250104-0156.zip

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USB not recommended for assigned disks for many reasons. 

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Possibly, a USB bridge problem:

 

Jan  4 01:53:14 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] tag#0 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=24s
Jan  4 01:53:14 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] tag#0 Sense Key : 0x5 [current] 
Jan  4 01:53:14 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] tag#0 ASC=0x20 ASCQ=0x0 
Jan  4 01:53:14 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] tag#0 CDB: opcode=0x88 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7f 22 00 00 00 08 00 00
Jan  4 01:53:14 Tower kernel: critical target error, dev sde, sector 32546 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 1 prio class 2

 

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Is there truly no way to make this work? I only have 1 USB-C port on my hard drive enclosure. No ethernet ports :(

 

thanks for the replies!

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For reference, this is the exact hard drive enclosure I have. Mediasonic USB 3.2 4 Bay 3.5” SATA Hard Drive Enclosure DAS – USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps Type C | USB-C (HF7-SU31C) Support 24TB HDD

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If the same thing is happening with both drives probably, there's not much that can be done, but post the output from

 

lsusb -t

 

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