ST9146802SS SAS 2,5" - Possible to rebuild translator?

[Corsari]

Hello friends

here you a good question

The drive in subject

is reported as with a failure, it sounds good but the SAS card BIOS at boot reports it as with an error (in SAS card BIOS the model name is shown correctly)

But next e.g. in the Linux disk utility only the name is reported but no other details, expecially the capacity

I was wondering if it could be matter of translator.

As others ST drives, it has its TTL serial port connection port... (see attached picture) do you know if any terminal action is possible through that port?

Thank you

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ST9146802SS board connectors

[hhddrec]

Is posible, but especial and expensive tolls needed.

The best in this case is call to a local pro. If you want i know some goods pro peole in Itally

[Corsari]

Thank you, but your one it is not a reply for the question

The question is:
Did any of you have done any operation through terminal on those SAS drives?

We have PC3K but (and we have been right) we have never invested on the SCSI one, for the simple fact that SAS storages are usually monotired pretty fine by sysadmins and so it never happen in many years to receive storages with a double disk failure.

In this case, as well. But for some verifications it would be useful to restore the failed drive.

So, again, buying the SCSI one would have been a total lossy ROI.

[labtech]

What error sense does it present?
Not saying to do so, but have you already examined the internal condition? If so, what did you see?

[guru]

There is no ASCII terminal.

[Dmitri]

The drive in subject is reported as with a failure
...
I was wondering if it could be matter of translator.

If this drive shows zero capacity, then it's a translator failure.
According to the description, I'd give 8 or even 9 out of 10 to that assumption.

As others ST drives, it has its TTL serial port connection port... (see attached picture) do you know if any terminal action is possible through that port?

Serial port on server hard drive families does not support ASCII terminal, only ESLIP one (binary). And its functionality is different.