Sorry I’m late and sorry for the @'s, but I believe that I may have some stuff that could be relevant to this. I’ve got a lot of seagate odds and ends and can provide some resources. I’ve also been looking at this issue from other forum posts, wondering if I should dive in.
@wendell @mutation666 @freudkid
I have a wide range of non-oem and oem seagate nytro ssds, many xeon ibm servers, an IBM power9 server with a raid card (raid card specific to ibm), and one of those jtag things board for these ssds made by seagate. It seems to be some kind of internal tool, and has a cable that plugs into that wide port on the rear of the ssds. Not sure how to do programming stuff or debugging for something like this, but perhaps that could prove useful. I don’t have any of the ibm ssds in particular sorry. Let me know if you need help with anything or have any questions. I’m perfectly fine with lending things to the project. I was intending on using this stuff for it anyways, but couldn’t find any of those IBM ssds for a decent price anywhere lol. Maybe its for the best, but we won’t know til’ we try, I guess.
Here’s some pictures of the stuff
Jtag thing & some random nytros:
(its usb type b to the board btw)
IBM power s924 and 57b4 raid card:
Hope I can be of some help here. I know that feeling of putting a lot of money and time into a project and it simply not working or being useless.