Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!?

Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rook@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks for the uplifting words

  I’ve connected to drive to another PC running Linux Mint 22, and the disks app can see the drive but no actions can be done on it. And Gparted can’t even read it lol.

  Any ideas?

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  • Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you have the SAS drive connected to your Mint 22 box (what exact adapter/controller)? Is it going through a real SAS HBA (LSI/Broadcom-style, IT/HBA mode), or through a RAID controller / USB-SAS bridge / “virtual” adapter?

    Reason I’m asking: there are basically two connection paths:

    • True HBA/passthrough: Linux gets direct SCSI access (you’ll see a /dev/sgX for the disk) and you can usually low-level reformat it back to 512-byte logical blocks (e.g., from 520/528).
    • RAID/USB/translation layer: the controller hides or emulates the SCSI commands, so tools like sg_format often can’t issue the low-level format needed to switch the sector size. That might be why the disk is visible in the disks app but not in gparted.

    Given the screen shots I believe it’s the later. Can someone smarter than me confirm?

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    • rook@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for the reply,

      It is an LSI card, the same one that was in my truenas server.

      This one bought here

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• non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  SAS drive. If you know of a usb-SAS enclosure, I’d like one.

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  • Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    USB enclosures for SAS drives are available

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• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And don’t feel bad about breaking things, that’s the best way to learn

  Most of what I know, which is not a a huge repository of intellect, I learned thusly:

  • Read —> try—>fuck it up #$%^^
  • re-read —> try again—>fuck it up once more #$%^^
  • $$@#!!! more reading —> more trying —>That WORKED! Write that shit down!

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