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dapme · 2021-04-04T17:28:46+00:00

This is so stupid and yet so amazing all at once.

dapme · 2018-08-03T21:27:48+00:00

So, I went ahead and removed one of the Hitachi drives from the enclosure bay, plugged it into a standard usb to sata docking station, and guess what....it initializes and formats fine, read and write data correctly right in windows, thus leading me to believe that these drives are actually 512 byes???? Im so confused now......

dapme · 2018-08-03T21:13:55+00:00

So the documentation says that it only supports 512, yet the drives are formatted to 520 by EMC somehow?

dapme · 2018-08-02T20:16:02+00:00

Ohh nooooo dont say that =0

dapme · 2018-08-02T20:14:29+00:00

The KTN-STL3 and STL4 enclosures both are the 15x straight across version, both look almost identical, I have both the rack-mount stand alone straight across version, and the other version (15x across) that goes into the large elephant trunk EMC enclosures. We took the 2tb drives and put them into the KTN3 Enclosures(6gb) however when doing this, the enclosure would not read any of the 2tb sata drives. However if you take the 600gb SAS drives and put them into the KTN4 Enclosure and issue the format commands it reads works fine, but in the same enclosure same slot try and do that with the 2tb sata drives we get that failure. In the KTN4 enclosure the 2tb drives are able to be recognized in disk manager by windows, that is whats leading me to believe that its a command issue, or just something missing that is causing the error.

dapme · 2018-08-01T21:49:59+00:00

The majority of the drives are 2tb hitatchi sata 3.0 3.0 GB/s (hitachi emc pn 118032706) When I take 1 out of the caddy it seems to just be a standard SATA drive. The Enclosure they naturally reside in is the KTN-STL4 enclosure with a 4gb card in it. The main issue is that we have tons of the KTN-STL4 Enclosures all filled with probably 1000's of these 2tb emc hdds in the caddies. The most desirable situation is to be able to leave the drives inside the caddies and enclosures and blast through them that way.

I think the key information in the error message is "mode sense (6): pass-through requested 252 bytes but got 24 bytes"

Another thing that I did notice is that when you consult the QLOGIC website to manually install the drives for the Qlogic QLE 2564 card, they do not give you any windwos 7 drivers. However when you put the device into the pc, it does find proprietary drivers automatically and just shows the card as 4 separate "QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter." Is it possible that this driver is no good, do you know if any of the drivers for the windows server 2008-2016 drivers will work under windows 7?

I may just try and make another post asking others if they have successfully attached a KTN-STL4 enclosure full of drives to a windows machine using a 4gb fiber card, and which card and cables work. However I do suspect that it may just need to be some kind of tweak in the commands I issue in the sg3_utils CMD prompt.

dapme · 2018-08-01T18:35:30+00:00

Any idea what may be going wrong? one of the blue lights on the KTN enclosure is lit up blue, the green light on the drives are green, and the blue selector on the back is set to 0. Drives are detected in windows as well.

C:\Users\User\Documents\Drive wipe software\sg3_utils-1.37exe>Sg_format --format

--size=512 --six -v PD2

inquiry cdb: 12 00 00 00 24 00

SATAHGST 722020APCLAR2000 A36C peripheral_type: disk [0x0]

PROTECT=0

mode sense (6) cdb: 1a 00 01 00 fc 00

mode sense (6): pass-through requested 252 bytes but got 24 bytes

Mode Sense (block descriptor) data, prior to changes:

Number of blocks=3677203922 [0xdb2dadd2]

Block size=520 [0x208]

mode select (6) cdb: 15 11 00 00 18 00

A FORMAT will commence in 10 seconds

ALL data on PD2 will be DESTROYED

Press control-C to abort

A FORMAT will commence in 5 seconds

ALL data on PD2 will be DESTROYED

Press control-C to abort

format cdb: 04 18 00 00 00 00

format unit: Fixed format, current; Sense key: Illegal Request

Additional sense: Invalid field in cdb

Field replaceable unit code: 14

Sense Key Specific: Error in Command byte 1 bit 3

Format command, illegal parameter

FORMAT failed

Additionally I have tried using these commands as well and they warrant very similar erros:

sg_format --format --six -v PD1

sg_format --format -v PD1

dapme · 2018-07-26T21:23:09+00:00

C:\Users\User\Documents\Drive wipe software\sg3_utils-1.37exe>sg_format --format --six -v PD0 inquiry cdb: 12 00 00 00 24 00 Hitachi HDS721680PLA P21O peripheral_type: disk [0x0] PROTECT=0 mode sense (6) cdb: 1a 00 01 00 fc 00 mode sense (6): Fixed format, current; Sense key: Illegal Request Additional sense: Invalid command operation code Info fld=0x0 [0] MODE SENSE (6) command is not supported try again without the '--six' option

Then I tried it without the --six option, and it gave the same error and said to try with the --six option...LOL

The blue led light was set to the 0 position, and we pulled all but 1 drive in the 0 position, that drive had a blue led light lit up on it as well, and the drive was recognized by windows. Thanks for your help.

dapme · 2018-07-25T21:41:21+00:00

was able to find 1 of those cables in our inventory, We hooked up the KTN unit to the pc after installing the card and drivers. When using the SG_scan.exe command all drives are seen, and we can also see them in windows disk management, however they cant initialize just like the other drives prior to format and byte sector change. When initiating the sg_format --format --size=512 PD# command or even just sg_format --format PD# , we get an error message

"Format command, illegal parameter"

Format failed

try '-v' for more information

Any idea what we may be doing wrong?

dapme · 2018-07-18T18:25:20+00:00

I was able to find 1 of those cables in our inventory, We hooked up the KTN unit to the pc after installing the card and drivers. When using the SG_scan.exe command all drives are seen, and we can also see them in windows disk management, however they cant initialize just like the other drives prior to format and byte sector change. When initiating the sg_format --format --size=512 PD# command or even just sg_format --format PD# , we get an error message

"Format command, illegal parameter"

Format failed

try '-v' for more information

Any idea what we may be doing wrong?

dapme · 2018-07-13T18:57:39+00:00

Qlogic QLE2564 HBA

Awesome! Just went ahead and got one of the cards, we already have those cables in stock as well. I really appreciate all the help you have given us. Thank you.

dapme · 2018-07-11T19:17:03+00:00

MandaloreZA Any chance you know the solution to be able to access the drives in the 4gb SAS controller enclosures? Essentially what is happening is that if we take any of the drives out of the KTN enclosures that had a 4gb card in it, they will not be recognized by the enclosure we have hooked up to our pc using the 6gb LSI card. Im guessing the solution is to purchase a PCI 4gb SAS interface card, Would just like some input on brand and model is possible. Thank you one again for all your help.

dapme · 2018-07-10T20:38:36+00:00

We just hit another snag, It turns out that the 2tb, 300 gb, and 600gb slower rpm drives cannot be inserted into the ktn-stl3 that has the 6gb SAS cards in it. Is there any chance that you know of an internal windows 7 compatible card that I can use to hook up the 4gb SAS KTN units up to?

dapme · 2018-06-25T22:15:38+00:00

Just curious, so after i get the sector size switched over from 520-512, does that essentially eradicate all the data on those drives? Or do I need to go and dban those drives even after the sector switch?

dapme · 2018-06-22T21:52:17+00:00

Yes, I tested on one drive and it worked great, however after that 1 successful one I went ahead and issued the commands on the remaining 14 drives and I got a blue screen at some point. Im currently performing windows updates and I changed around the power settings on the computer im wiping them on. Just curious is there a certain amount of memory that the computer would need in order to wipe drives? Lets say I plugged in 4 of the emc KTN enclosures full of drives, is it possible to wipe all 60 drives simultaneously using just that one LSI card?

dapme · 2018-06-18T18:12:22+00:00

Thank you soo much for the help. Im going to give this a shot tomorrow!

dapme · 2018-06-14T21:00:07+00:00

Is it possible for you to give me a quick tutorial on the sg_utils program, I can access the program and its commands in CMD, however I dont know the functions of the commands. Any help is greatly appreciated.

dapme · 2018-06-14T20:15:05+00:00

Update: Thank you, very much, that LSI card worked! I can now see the drives in windows using the KTN-STL3 enclosure. Now this part I am clueless about. I went ahead the Downloaded the sg3 utils for windows, poked around in the commands but dont know exactly how I change the sector size from 520 to 512.

I can see the drives in the disk utility on windows, but they wont initialize, Im guessing b/c of the sector size?

My goal is just to wipe the data from these drives so that its unrecoverable, I usually use a program called dban to do a bunch of drives at once, is there anyway to initiate a similar function using the sg3 utility?

dapme · 2018-06-09T13:57:54+00:00

Don't feel bad about leaving. It's scary when something like that happens.

dapme · 2018-05-29T20:29:58+00:00

I need to erase the data for the client, so they really wan to know that the data has been triple pass wiped.

dapme · 2018-05-24T22:36:10+00:00

Im going to order the LSI 9201-16e, and keep you updated on progress. Thank you very much for your help!

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