On 2020-01-02 14:12, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Device Model: ST8000AS0003-2HH188 > > > > I recall reading about SMR but can't recall the details of what it is. > > far as I know, this is just a basic 8TB drive. > > This is an SMR drive. You should DEFINITELY read up on what they are.
How do you know? The identfying string doesn't appear in the kernel source (I did a case-insensitive recursive grep). -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
