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I made images of 4 520 sector drives, using live cd v 14.04 Now I am trying to write the images to new 520sector fc drives. its getting an error I can read the new 520 drive with no errors. when i start the write - the terminal window says checking read support write6 true, write10=true...

hp va7100 raid, fiberchannel, 520sectors I received a raid... 6 36gb drives First surprise - it was fiberchannel - got that handled Second surprise - 520byte sectors - ok got them converted to 512 Looking at the data I dont see a parity pattern that I recognize. I do see unix style inodes -...

I have a sas drive toshiba mk3001g33b sounds ok but might have corrupt glist. Is there a scsi linux or other tool to fix the glist? I have the srt software - but for sas seagate. - it works.... but not for toshiba. thanks

dolphin has a video on platter balancing. I have a 300gb sas drive from a raid. the bearing was worn out and wobbly. we transferred the platters to a new body. its spins pretty smooth but here is a little vibration. its close to coming ready but not quite. Not quite sure how to get the...

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-dri ... s-q2-2017/ yay seagate

Board was corroded - couldnt read rom through board rom was marked as MXIC 25U4035 ids as a C22533 My GQ rom reader didnt have a model for it. But I read it as a macronix class w25x10 3.6v 512K

I have a MQ01ABD100 - sounds terrible heads clicking banging arround calibrating all over the place. swapped heads. same behavior. check under microscope - heads perfect. Put patient heads in donor works great. so probably some SA glist problem. How do I get access to the serice area to fix it...