On 7 February 2015 17:25:22 CET, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> This is concerning a hard drive I had issues with a while back. I >been >> using it to do backups with as a test if nothing else. Anyway, it >seems >> to have issues once again. >> >> > >A little update on this drive for those interested. I get this now. > >root@fireball / # smartctl --all /dev/sdd >smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-linux-3.16.3-gentoo] (local >build) >Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, >www.smartmontools.org > >=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === >Vendor: /4:0:0:0 >Product: >Compliance: SPC-5 >User Capacity: 600,332,565,813,390,450 bytes [600 PB] >Logical block size: 774843950 bytes >scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=47 offset=50 >bd_len=46 >scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=47 offset=50 >bd_len=46 >>> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page >A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more >'-T permissive' options. >root@fireball / # > >If I use cgdisk, I get this first thing. > >Warning! Non-GPT or damaged disk detected! This program will attempt to >convert to GPT form or repair damage to GPT data structures, but may >not >succeed. Use gdisk or another disk repair tool if you have a damaged >GPT >disk. > >And then it says the drive is this BIG: > >8.0 ZiB > >What the heck is that? Anyway, I guess after almost 4 months of >uptime, >time to shutdown and disconnect one pretty much dead drive. It was fun >playing with tho. Now it will be fun to use as target. ;-) > >Dale > >:-) :-)
8ZiB = 8000 PiB = 8000000 GiB. Eg. That's one really big disk! Put it with just that on Ebay and see who falls for it? -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
