Accessing the SSD via a USB SAS drive caddy running Linux Mint Live CD. GParted does not see it at all.
isblk (Edited, obviously)
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sdh 8:112 0 465.8G 0 disk
mint@mint:~$ sudo sg_scan -i (edited)
/dev/sg7: scsi8 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em]
Generic External 0157 [rmb=0 cmdq=0 pqual=0 pdev=0x0]
Read @wendell article here: Reformat 520 to 512
From what I see here, the size of the drive is already 512:
mint@mint:~$ sudo sg_readcap -v -l /dev/sg7
read capacity(16) cdb: [9e 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00]
Read Capacity results:
Protection: prot_en=0, p_type=0, p_i_exponent=0
Logical block provisioning: lbpme=0, lbprz=0
Last LBA=976773167 (0x3a38602f), Number of logical blocks=976773168
Logical block length=512 bytes
Logical blocks per physical block exponent=0
Lowest aligned LBA=0
mint@mint:~$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sg7
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-41-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: HGST HUSMR1650ASS201
Serial Number: 0QW5DPXA
Add. Product Id: 13FD6710
Firmware Version: 1.5301
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 3c
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Fri Mar 1 14:44:02 2024 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Hence:
Device size: 500107862016 bytes, 476940.0 MiB, 500.11 GBmint@mint:~$ sudo sg_format -v --format --size=512 /dev/sdh
Generic External 0157 peripheral_type: disk [0x0]
PROTECT=1
<< supports protection information>>
Unit serial number: 0QW5DPXA
LU name: 5000cca04e42343f
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
bad field in MODE SENSE (10) [mode_page 1 not supported?]
(Also tried:
sudo sg_format -S -v --format --size=512 /dev/sdh
sudo sg_format -S -v --format --size=520 /dev/sdh
to same result)
Finally, found some SAS drives could be wiped with SeaTools for Linux, installed the latest and it refuses to run any wipe or erase function. Just says “Failed to start” on any function.
