How to format 520 byte sector size SAS HDD as 512

[aoba]

Hello

 

I bought 3 SAS HDD, which seem to be used in NetApp System, and my Proliant DL380 Gen10 with Smart Array P408i-a SR don't recognize properly because of their sector size is 520 byte.

Then I've tried using following command to format as a 512 byte sector size with Ubuntu 19.04 on USB.

> sg_format --format --size=512 /dev/“drive dir”

 

However it says "illegal sense key, apart from invalid opcode" and cannot format.

 

Please help me with resolving this.

 

 

Hardware details follows

HPE Proliant DL380 Gen10

HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR, 2GB Cache with FBWC

HDEBJ12NAA51(netapp's part #) / Toshiba AL14SEB09EQ, 10K SAS 12Gb 900GB

[unijab]

Have you read this?

 

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/how-to-reformat-520-byte-drives-to-512-bytes-usually/133021