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February 1st, 2025 18:07
T320 SAS Compatibility
Hi... I have 6 drive (used but working) ST6000NM0034 (512e). The orginal controller is a H310 full size but it doesn't recognize the correct size of the drive and blocked them... no proxmox or other OS can see the drive. I bought a LSI SAS9207-8i and with that the drive are recognized correctly in BIOS but I can't use and when I try to initialize with windows I have a I/O error (but I see all the disk information correctly).
I feel like I missing something, whit the orinal 1TB Dell SATA drives I have no problem and I'm using the same caddy.
Can someone help me?
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lino_dell
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February 6th, 2025 08:56
SOLVED
The drive was refurbished and formatted with a sector size of 520 instead of 512.
Reformatting the disk with sg3_utils (google it) everything's goes right!!!
Thank for supporting!
Lino
DELL-Young E
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February 3rd, 2025 00:31
Hello, thanks for choosing Dell and welcome to our community.
You can check out the spec of the SAS 9207-8i you mentioned. https://dell.to/3WJMqUu
However, what I’m interested in is how you connected the card. Was the card recognized from the POST?
Respectfully,
lino_dell
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February 3rd, 2025 09:14
The card have the P20 firmware with IT-mode and I only switched with the H310.
In the POST I can go in the card BIOS with CTRL+C and my drive (SEAGATE with bulk firmware) were correctly recognized... but I can use with any OS! Can you help me?
How I can test the drive?
thank you, Lino
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February 3rd, 2025 14:30
Since the drives are recognized in the BIOS but not by the OS, it might be worth trying to initialize the drives using a different tool. You can use Seagate's SeaTools to perform diagnostics and possibly initialize the drive.
Double-check the connections and ensure that the drives are properly seated in the caddies. Also, verify that the SAS cables are securely connected to both the controller and the drives.