You don’t want to do this if it’s not the correct solution. Verify that your drives have an incorrect block size I like to remove any drives that I don’t want to format before doing this.
The rest of this guide has been designed to work with this version of Ubuntu, so pick this for best results.īoot up your system from this flash drive. Grab a flash drive, download Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and install it to your flash drive with Rufus (or similar). Some RAID controllers will not allow you to do this, but others can be reflashed to enable this type of access. This is necessary because you’ll need to have direct access to the drive in order to reformat it. Most importantly, you’ll need an HBA or RAID controller capable of IT mode to connect your drives.
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Here’s how to get started fixing your own drives: Prerequisites I have a whole server full of these drives, so I made my own fork which is capable of reformatting more than one drive at once. Unfortunatly, the tool only reformats one drive at a time. This tool has been reported to work on IBM, Hitachi, and Seagate disks. User ahouston on GitHub has posted a fork of the great setblocksize tool which will send the correct commands to a SAS drive controller in order for it to reformat the drive to 512 block size. As it turns out, many drives out of enterprise storage arrays have been formatted with non-standard block sizes, for various reasons.įortunately, there’s a way to format them back to a standard 512 block size so they can be used in a typical server. You’re probably reading this page because you came across a great deal on some SAS drives, and you can’t get them to work.