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Today I learned that not only could an enterprise drive be formatted with 520 byte sectors instead of 512 byte sectors (causing linux to shrug and give up) but also it could have special vendor firmware. It's been an ordeal, but it looks like openSeaChest and sg_format are going to save this drive.

10/2/26, 7:35 pm0 reposts3 likes

Tim Misiak

@timdbg.com

10 Feb

The funny thing is that these drives look externally identical to another set that i bought from a different seller on ebay that worked perfectly. And they kinda sorta work when you plug them in, except you can't actually touch any data on them.