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rook@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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