Seagate SAS faillure

[pclab]

Dead for now...

 

[Jared]

Hey PCLab, any chance you still have this drive? I'm toying with a new method to regenerate translator of SAS drives and could use another guinea pig.

 

[pclab]

Hey Jared

Yes, I have. Call me on skype if you want.

 

[Jared]

Hi PCLab, I just noticed this response for the first time.... still have the guinea pig for me?

 

[pclab]

Hey

Yes, still laying around...

 

[Jared]

You have a Linux machine you can connect it to and then run a tool to see if it'll regenerate the translator?

 

[pclab]

Yes. It was also working with Linux too.

 

[Jared]

[glow=blue]OK, try this:[/glow]
Connect the drive to the Linux machine and find it's path E.G. /dev/sda
Install the sg3_utils (from here: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html)
then run these commands:

sg_raw /dev/sda DF 00 33 49 00 00
sg_raw /dev/sda C8 01 00 00 00 00

You may have to throw a -v and/or -n trigger in there to make it work.

 

[pclab]

Ok, I will try that as soon as possible.
By the way: any difference if it was running on RAID?

 

[Jared]

Was running on RAID, or currently IS running in a RAID? Shouldn't matter if it was part of a RAID in the past, the data isn't accessible if it's in need of translator regeneration.

Oh, and don't forget to do it as superuser or sudo it.