Just for anyone else who's tasked with wiping EMC drives that are 520byte sector size and can't have the sector size adjusted via the normal means you can still erase the drive completely and zero fill it just using the following command in the SG3_Utils linux package:
If the drive will allow you to, you can resize the sectors to 512 for normal access using the command:
However, not all drives allow this in the firmware. But, the way I see it a 520 byte sector drive has a better resale on eBay after wiping anyway.
As with most things I post, I realize it's not anything new or novel, but i put it here for my own quick reference to find later. :lol:
If the drive will allow you to, you can resize the sectors to 512 for normal access using the command:
However, not all drives allow this in the firmware. But, the way I see it a 520 byte sector drive has a better resale on eBay after wiping anyway.
As with most things I post, I realize it's not anything new or novel, but i put it here for my own quick reference to find later. :lol: